%0 Journal Article %A Dood, L. R. %A Thomas, A. W. %A Fernández Álvarez-Estrada, Ramón %T Cloudy bag model: convergent perturbation expansion for the nucleon %D 1981 %@ 0556-2821 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/65025 %X A previously published bound on the probability of finding n pions in the dressed nucleon in Chew-Low theory is improved. The proof is then extended to the recently derived cloudy-bag-model Hamiltonian. Together with a bound on the average number of pions (0.9±1.0), our result strongly suggests a rapid convergence of the perturbation expansion in the cloudy bag model. %~