The chiral phase transition at high baryon density from nonperturbative flow equations

We investigate the chiral phase transition at high baryon number density within the linear quark meson model for two flavors. The method we employ is based on an exact renormalization group equation for the free energy. Truncated nonperturbative flow equations are derived at nonzero chemical potential and temperature. Whereas the renormalization group flow leads to spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in vacuum, we find a chiral symmetry restoring first order transition at high density. Combined with previous investigations at nonzero temperature, the result implies the presence of a tricritical point with long–range correlations in the phase diagram. Received: 24 August 1999 / Published online: 17 February 2000     

Weak form factors for semileptonic octet baryon decays in the chiral quark model

We study the weak vector and axial-vector form factors of first- and second-class currents for the semileptonic octet baryon decays in the spirit of the chiral quark model. Our results for the weak magnetism form factors are consistent with the conserved vector current (CVC) results. The induced pseudotensor form factors, which are highly model dependent, are small. The overall performance of the chiral quark model is quite good and in general agreement with existing experimental data. Received: 9 March 1998 / Published online: 12 August 1998     

The spin-symmetry of the quark model

Corrections to the exact heavy–quark symmetry results are expected to come from the inverse powers of the heavy-quark mass. We show, by an explicit calculation using the quark model, that the breaking of the spin symmetry is suppressed by other kinematic effects even when the quark masses are not heavy. Received: 21 January 1999 / Published online: 20 May 1999     

The quark-gluon vertex in Landau gauge QCD: Its role in dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and quark confinement

The infrared behavior of the quark-gluon vertex of quenched Landau gauge QCD is studied by analyzing its Dyson-Schwinger equation. Building on previously obtained results for Green functions in the Yang-Mills sector, we analytically derive the existence of power-law infrared singularities for this vertex. We establish that dynamical chiral symmetry breaking leads to the self-consistent generation of components of the quark-gluon vertex forbidden when chiral symmetry is forced to stay in the Wigner-Weyl mode. In the latter case the running strong coupling assumes an infrared fixed point. If chiral symmetry is broken, either dynamically or explicitly, the running coupling is infrared divergent. Based on a truncation for the quark-gluon vertex Dyson-Schwinger equation which respects the analytically determined infrared behavior, numerical results for the coupled system of the quark propagator and vertex Dyson-Schwinger equation are presented. The resulting quark mass function as well as the vertex function show only a very weak dependence on the current quark mass in the deep infrared. From this we infer by an analysis of the quark-quark scattering kernel a linearly rising quark potential with an almost mass independent string tension in the case of broken chiral symmetry. Enforcing chiral symmetry does lead to a Coulomb type potential. Therefore, we conclude that chiral symmetry breaking and confinement are closely related. Furthermore, we discuss aspects of confinement as the absence of long-range van der Waals forces and Casimir scaling. An examination of experimental data for quarkonia provides further evidence for the viability of the presented mechanism for quark confinement in the Landau gauge.     

Phase structure of two-flavor QCD at finite chemical potential

We study the phase diagram of two-flavor QCD at imaginary chemical potentials in the chiral limit. To this end we compute order parameters for chiral symmetry breaking and quark confinement. The interrelation of quark confinement and chiral symmetry breaking is analyzed with a new order parameter for the confinement phase transition. We show that it is directly related to both the quark density as well as the Polyakov loop expectation value. Our analytical and numerical results suggest a close relation between the chiral and the confinement phase transition.     

Viscosities in chiral symmetry breaking phase

In the chiral symmetry breaking phase described by the NJL model at quark level,along with the chiral symmetry restoration the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density η/s drops down monotonously and reaches the minimum at the critical point,while the ratio of bulk viscosity to entropy density ζ/s behaves oppositely.     

The Effect of Bare Quark Mass on the Pion Properties in BS Formalism Containing a Confining Term

Using the SD equation and the covariant BS equation, we investigate dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in the presence of a bare quark mass in a QCD motivated model containing a confining interaction. The bare quark mass m₀ corresponding to the physical mass of the pion and corrections to the dynamical quark mass and the pion decay constant due to mo are calculated. The results are consistent with the notion of chiral perturbatiyn and predictions of the current algebra.     

Gluon condensates,chiral symmetry breaking and pion wave-function

We consider here chiral symmetry breaking in quantum chromodynamics arising from gluon condensates in vacuum. Through coherent states of gluons simulating a mean field type of approximation, we show that the off-shell gluon condensates of vacuum generate a mass-like contribution for the quarks, giving rise to chiral symmetry breaking. We next note that spontaneous breaking of global chiral symmetry links the four component quark field operator to the pion wave function. This in turn yields many hadronic properties in the light quark sector in agreement with experiments, leading to the conclusion that low energy hadron properties are primarily driven by the vacuum structure of quantum chromodynamics.     

Flavor mixing within SU(6) × SU(6) breaking

We have investigated flavor mixing within the six-quark model using chiral symmetry breaking. We have derived the mixing angles in terms of the quark mass ratios similarly to discrete symmetry considerations.     

Chiral symmetry breaking in the infinite momentum frame

Infinite momentum frame techniques are used to estimate the value of the chiral symmetry breaking parameter in the quark model of the pseudoscalar mesons.     

Chiral-symmetry breaking and gluon condensation

With the help of the Ward-Takahashi identities associated with a specific non linear chiral transformation of the quark fields we show, in the framework of massless QCD, that in addition to scale invariance breaking gluon condensation implies dynamical chiral symmetry breaking, that is to say the appearance of a non vanishing quark condensate. Moreover the dynamically generated quark mass is directly connected to the quark and gluon condensates.     

Transition magnetic moments of J~P=3/2~+ decuplet to J~P=1/2~+ octet baryons in the chiral constituent quark model

In light of the developments of the chiral constituent quark model(χ~(CQM)) in studying low energy hadronic matrix elements of the ground-state baryons, we extend this model to investigate their transition properties.The magnetic moments of transitions from the J~P=3/2~+ decuplet to J~P=1/2~+ octet baryons are calculated with explicit valence quark spin, sea quark spin and sea quark orbital angular momentum contributions. Since the experimental data is available for only a few transitions, we compare our results with the results of other available models. The implications of other complicated effects such as chiral symmetry breaking and SU(3) symmetry breaking arising due to confinement of quarks are also discussed.     

Chiral symmetry breaking at finite temperature in Coulomb gauge QCD

Chiral symmetry breaking at finite temperature is analysed in Coulomb gauge QCD, using a suitably renormalised gap equation. In Coulomb gauge the gap equation is derived using the Ward identities and the Dyson equations for the vector and axial-vector vertices. Making the ladder approximation to the Bethe-Salpeter kernel relates the chiral symmetry breaking parameters to the static quark potential. It is thus possible to use a confining potential in the analysis of chiral symmetry breaking. We extend this to finite temperature. For a confining potential there is no chiral symmetry restoration at any finite temperature.     

Low-Energy Contributions to B (D) → π Form Factor

We calculate low-energy contributions to the weak form factors of B (D) → π in the frameworks of heavy-light chiral perturbation theory (HLCPT) including vector meson effects. The calculation is done to the order 1/Λ_csb³ in the expansion with respect to Λ_csb (Λ_csb is the chiral symmetry breaking scale) at O(1) in 1/m_Q expansion and to 1/Λ_csb² at l/m_Q. It is found that nonperturbative effects dominate B (D) → π form factors and the values are comparable with those from quark model approach.     

Chiral symmetry breaking and pion properties at finite temperatures

Spontaneous and explicit chiral symmetry breaking is analyzed in Coulomb gauge QCD at finite temperatures, using an instantaneous approximation for the quark interaction and incorporating confinement through a running coupling constant. The thermodynamics of the quarks is treated approximatively by assuming that the momentum-dependent constituent quark mass sets the scale for thermodynamic fluctuations of colour singlet excitations. We investigate the class of a temperature independent and a temperature dependent interaction between quarks. In the chiral limit both temperature independent and a smooth temperature dependent interaction yields a second order chiral phase transition with critical exponents close to the values for a BCS super-conductor. For explicit chiral symmetry breaking we find a nearly constant pion mass below the transition temperature, but a strongly overdamped mode above. For a first order deconfining transition in the gluonic sector also the quark sector shows a first order chiral phase transition. The relevance of our results for relativistic heavy ion collisions is briefly discussed.     

A Variational Approach for Hadronic Properties in NJL Model

We develop a variational approach for the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model with explicit chiral symmetry breaking and compute the constituent quark mass, the pion decay constant and the vacuum condensate. For a simple ansatz for the hadronic wavefunction, we also analyze the effects of the current quark mass and the ultraviolet cutoff on the static properties of hadrons.     

Effective quark masses in the chiral limit

The behavior of effective, scale dependent quark masses in the chiral limit is studied using the operator product expansion. Their relation to current and constituent quark masses is clarified. Current correlation functions are examined as an example of separating effects of spontaneous and explicit chiral symmetry breaking.     

ChiralSU(7)⊗SU(7) preon model as a hierarchical unification theory

A chiralSU(7) ?SU(7) gauge model is selected out of a wide class of preon models. It contains a pair of chiral preons as well as vectorial ones. Mass splittings of the latter cause rank-retaining breakings of the hyperflavor gauge symmetry in the preonic phase. Hypercolor confinement of preons and the feature of chiral ones among resulting postons (or hyperhadrons) are studied. Rank-decreasing breakings of the hyperflavor symmetry occur successively in the postonic phase as chiral postons acquire dynamical masses. Our coupled equations for quark masses are based on the assumption that electroweak symmetry breaking is due to the cooperation of short-range postonic forces with the infinite-range gluonic one. Updown asymmetry of quark masses are discussed in terms of the equations.     

On the scaling behavior of the chiral phase transition in QCD in finite and infinite volume

We study the scaling behavior of the two-flavor chiral phase transition using an effective quark–meson model. We investigate the transition between infinite-volume and finite-volume scaling behavior when the system is placed in a finite box. We can estimate effects that the finite volume and the explicit symmetry breaking by the current quark masses have on the scaling behavior which is observed in full QCD lattice simulations. The model allows us to explore large quark masses as well as the chiral limit in a wide range of volumes, and extract information about the scaling regimes. In particular, we find large scaling deviations for physical pion masses and significant finite-volume effects for pion masses that are used in current lattice simulations.     

组分夸克模型点评(英文)

以最新格点QCD和手征对称自发破缺结果为基础,对目前流行的组分夸克模型中采用的夸克囚禁方案和Goldstone玻色子-夸克耦合中存在的问题进行了讨论.The problems related to the modelling of quark confinement and Goldstone boson quark coupling in the prevailing constituent quark models are discussedbased on the lattice QCD result and the chiral symmetry spontaneous breakingtheory.