380 research outputs found
How the quark self-energy affects the color-superconducting gap
We consider color superconductivity with two flavors of massless quarks which
form Cooper pairs with total spin zero. We solve the gap equation for the
color-superconducting gap parameter to subleading order in the QCD coupling
constant at zero temperature. At this order in , there is also a
previously neglected contribution from the real part of the quark self-energy
to the gap equation. Including this contribution leads to a reduction of the
color-superconducting gap parameter \f_0 by a factor b_0'=\exp \big[ -(\p
^2+4)/8 \big]\simeq 0.177. On the other hand, the BCS relation T_c\simeq
0.57\f_0 between \f_0 and the transition temperature is shown to
remain valid after taking into account corrections from the quark self-energy.
The resulting value for confirms a result obtained previously with a
different method.Comment: Revtex, 8 pages, no figur
Functional Relation of interquark potential with interquark distance
The functional relation between interquark potential and interquark distance
is explicitly derived by considering the Nambu--Goto action in the background. It is also shown that a similar relation holds in a
general background. The implications of this relation for confinement are
briefly discussed.Comment: 11pages, 2 figures, reference adde
QCD with chiral 4-fermion interactions (QCD)
Lattice QCD with staggered quarks is augmented by the addition of a chiral
4-fermion interaction. The Dirac operator is now non-singular at ,
decreasing the computing requirements for light quark simulations by at least
an order of magnitude. We present preliminary results from simulations at
finite and zero temperatures for , with and without gauge fields.Comment: 3 pages. uuencoded, gzipped, tared LateX with 2 encapsulated
postscript figures. Uses epscrc2.sty. Talk presented at LATTICE96(chirality
in qcd). Title changed; minor changes at beginning and end of paper and
reference
Hidden functional relation in Large-N Quark-Monopole system at finite temperature
The quark-monopole potential is computed at finite temperature in the context
of correspondence. It is found that the potential is invariant under
and . As in the quark-quark case there exists a
maximum separation between quark and monopole, and -dependence of the
potential exhibits a bifurcation behavior. We find a functional relation
which is responsible for the bifurcation.
The remarkable property of this relation is that it makes a relation between
physical quantities defined at the boundary through a quantity defined at
the bulk. The physical implication of this relation for the existence of the
extra dimension is speculated.Comment: 22 pages, 3 figures, v1 one more reference added v2 version to appear
in NP
Generalized Ward identity and gauge invariance of the color-superconducting gap
We derive a generalized Ward identity for color-superconducting quark matter
via the functional integral approach. The identity implies the gauge
independence of the color-superconducting gap parameter on the quasi-particle
mass shell to subleading order in covariant gauge.Comment: 5 pages, 1 Postscript figure, uses Revte
Gluon self-energy in a two-flavor color superconductor
The energy and momentum dependence of the gluon self-energy is investigated
in a color superconductor with two flavors of massless quarks. The presence of
a color-superconducting quark-quark condensate modifies the gluon self-energy
for energies which are of the order of the gap parameter. For gluon energies
much larger than the gap, the self-energy assumes the form given by the
standard hard-dense loop approximation. It is shown that this modification of
the gluon self-energy does not affect the magnitude of the gap to leading and
subleading order in the weak-coupling limit.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figures, RevTeX, aps and epsfig style files require
Magnetic catalysis and anisotropic confinement in QCD
The expressions for dynamical masses of quarks in the chiral limit in QCD in
a strong magnetic field are obtained. A low energy effective action for the
corresponding Nambu-Goldstone bosons is derived and the values of their decay
constants as well as the velocities are calculated. The existence of a
threshold value of the number of colors , dividing the theories with
essentially different dynamics, is established. For the number of colors , an anisotropic dynamics of confinement with the confinement
scale much less than and a rich spectrum of light glueballs is
realized. For of order or larger, a conventional confinement
dynamics takes place. It is found that the threshold value grows
rapidly with the magnetic field [ for ]. In contrast to QCD with a nonzero baryon density, there are no
principal obstacles for checking these results and predictions in lattice
computer simulations.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure. REVTeX. Minor correction. To appear in Phys. Rev.
Dynamics of Baryons from String Theory and Vector Dominance
We consider a holographic model of QCD from string theory, a la Sakai and
Sugimoto, and study baryons. In this model, mesons are collectively realized as
a five-dimensional \ Yang-Mills field and baryons
are classically identified as solitons with a unit Pontryagin number
and electric charges. The soliton is shown to be very small in the large
't Hooft coupling limit, allowing us to introduce an effective field . Its coupling to the mesons are dictated by the soliton structure, and
consists of a direct magnetic coupling to the field strength as well
as a minimal coupling to the gauge field. Upon the dimensional
reduction, this effective action reproduces all interaction terms between
nucleons and an infinite tower of mesons in a manner consistent with the large
expansion. We further find that all electromagnetic interactions, as
inferred from the same effective action via a holographic prescription, are
mediated by an infinite tower of vector mesons, rendering the baryon
electromagnetic form factors completely vector-dominated as well. We estimate
nucleon-meson couplings and also the anomalous magnetic moments, which compare
well with nature.Comment: 65pages, 3 figures, vector mesons and axial-vector mesons are now
canonically normalized (comparisons with data and conclusions unaffected
Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking on the Light Front I. DLCQ Approach
Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in the DLCQ method is investigated in
detail using a chiral Yukawa model closely related to the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio
model. By classically solving three constraints characteristic of the
light-front formalism, we show that the chiral transformation defined on the
light front is equivalent to the usual one when bare mass is absent. A quantum
analysis demonstrates that a nonperturbative mean-field solution to the
``zero-mode constraint'' for a scalar boson (sigma) can develop a nonzero
condensate while a perturbative solution cannot. This description is due to our
identification of the ``zero-mode constraint'' with the gap equation. The
mean-field calculation clarifies unusual chiral transformation properties of
fermionic field, which resolves a seemingly inconsistency between triviality of
the null-plane chiral charge Q_5|0>=0 and nonzero condensate. We also calculate
masses of scalar and pseudoscalar bosons for both symmetric and broken phases,
and eventually derive the PCAC relation and nonconservation of Q_5 in the
broken phase.Comment: Revised version to appear in Phys. Rev. D. 19 pages, 4 figures,
REVTEX. Derivation of the PCAC relation is given. Its relation to the
nonconservation of chiral charge is clarified. 1 figure and some references
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