Chiral symmetry breaking and scalar string confinement
Journal Article
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· Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Departamento de Fisica and Centro de Fisica das Interaccoes Fundamentais, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Avenida Rovisco Pais 1049-001 Lisbon (Portugal)
We address the old difficulty in accommodating the scalar quark-antiquark confining potential together with chiral symmetry breaking. We develop a quark confining potential inspired in the QCD scalar flux tube. The coupling to quarks consists in a double vector vertex. We study the Dirac and spin structure of this potential. In the limit of massless quarks, the quark vertex is vector. Nevertheless, symmetry breaking generates a new scalar quark vertex. In the heavy quark limit, the coupling is mostly scalar. We solve the mass gap equation and find that this potential produces spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking for light quarks. The quantitative results of this model are encouraging.
- OSTI ID:
- 20705641
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 70; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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