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Current and constituent quark masses: Beyond chiral-symmetry breaking

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA)
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  1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Postbox 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands (NL)
It is shown how the current quark mass, engendered by the electroweak sector, gives rise to a constituent quark mass, via the Dyson-Schwinger equations. The chiral-symmetry-breaking phenomenon of massless QCD is thereby seen to have an implementable generalization to the situation in which the strong bare mass is nonzero. A consistent renormalization is carried out for an arbitrary covariant gauge.
OSTI ID:
6965111
Journal Information:
Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA), Journal Name: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA) Vol. 41:5; ISSN PRVDA; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English