29 research outputs found
Chiral symmetry breaking in the truncated Coulomb Gauge II. Non-confining power law potentials
In this paper we study the breaking of chiral symmetry with non-confining
power-like potentials. The region of allowed exponents is identified and, after
the previous study of confining (positive exponent) potentials, we now
specialize in shorter range non-confining potentials, with a negative exponent.
These non-confining potentials are close to the Coulomb potential, and they are
also relevant as corrections to the linear confinement, and as models for the
quark potential at the deconfinement transition. The mass-gap equation is
constructed and solved, and the quarks mass, the chiral angle and the quark
energy are calculated analytically with a exponent expansion in the
neighbourhood of the Coulomb potential. It is demonstrated that chiral symmetry
breaking occurs, but only the chiral invariant false vacuum and a second
non-trivial vacuum exist. Moreover chiral symmetry breaking is led by the UV
part of the potential, with no IR enhancement of the quark mass. Thus the
breaking of chiral symmetry driven by non-confining potentials differs from the
one lead by confining potentials.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Circumventing the axial anomalies and the strong CP problem
Many meson processes are related to the U_A(1) axial anomaly, present in the
Feynman graphs where fermion loops connect axial vertices with vector vertices.
However, the coupling of pseudoscalar mesons to quarks does not have to be
formulated via axial vertices. The pseudoscalar coupling is also possible, and
this approach is especially natural on the level of the quark substructure of
hadrons. In this paper we point out the advantages of calculating these
processes using (instead of the anomalous graphs) the graphs where axial
vertices are replaced by pseudoscalar vertices. We elaborate especially the
case of the processes related to the Abelian axial anomaly of QED, but we
speculate that it seems possible that effects of the non-Abelian axial anomaly
of QCD can be accounted for in an analogous way.Comment: 13 pages, some typos corrected, published in Prof. D. Tadic's
memorial issue of Fizika B, expanded version of hep-ph/051212
A symmetry restoration scenario supported by the generalized Witten-Veneziano relation and its analytic solution
The Witten-Veneziano relation, or, alternatively, its generalization proposed
by Shore, facilitates understanding and describing the complex of eta and eta'
mesons. We present an analytic, closed-form solution to Shore's equations which
gives results on the eta-eta' complex in full agreement with results previously
obtained numerically. Although the Witten-Veneziano relation and Shore's
equations are related, the ways they were previously used in the context of
dynamical models to calculate eta and eta' properties, were rather different.
However, with the analytic solution, the calculation can be formulated
similarly to the approach through the Witten-Veneziano relation, and with some
conceptual improvements. In the process, one strengthens the arguments in favor
of a possible relation between the U_A(1) and SU_A(3) chiral symmetry breaking
and restoration. To test this scenario, the experiments such as those at RHIC,
NICA and FAIR, which extend the RHIC (and LHC) high-temperature scans also to
the finite-density parts of the QCD phase diagram, should pay particular
attention to the signatures from the eta'-eta complex indicating the symmetry
restoration.Comment: elsarticle style, 6 page
Nucleon strangeness as the response to a strangeness-sensitive probe in a class of hadron models
On top of its valence quarks, the full nucleon ground state may contain
appreciable admixture of s-\bar{s} pairs already at small momentum transfers.
This paper discusses strangeness in the mean-field type of nucleon models, and
exemplifies this by explicit calculations in the MIT bag model enriched by the
presence of instantons.
We calculate the instanton contribution to the strangeness in the MIT bag (on
top of the standard contribution to strangeness found in that model). Although
we do it in an essentially perturbative way, we present a detailed derivation
of the formula expressing nucleon matrix elements of bilinear strange quark
operators, in terms of a model valence nucleon state and interactions producing
quark-antiquark fluctuations on top of that valence state. We do it in detail
to clarify our argument that in the context of the mean-field type of quark
models (where a Fock state expansion exists and where the nucleon state can be
constructed out of single-quark states), the resulting formula acquires a
significance beyond perturbation theory.The derivation combines the usage of
the evolution operator containing a strangeness source, and Feynman-Hellmann
theorem.Comment: LaTeX2e, 34 pages, 4 figures (included