Constituent quarks and g 1

We review the theory and present status of the proton spin problem with emphasis on the transition between current quarks and constituent quarks in QCD. Received: 7 January 1999 / Revised version: 12 February 1999     

Constituent quarks from QCD

Starting from the observation that colour charge is only well defined on gauge invariant states, we construct perturbatively gauge invariant, dynamical dressings for individual quarks. Explicit calculations show that an infra-red finite mass-shell renormalisation of the gauge invariant, dressed propagator is possible and, further, that operator product effects, which generate a running mass, may be included in a gauge invariant way in the propagator. We explain how these fields may be combined to form hadrons and show how the interquark potential can now be directly calculated. The onset of confinement is identified with an obstruction to building a non-perturbative dressing. We propose several methods to extract the hadronic scale from the interquark potential. Various extensions are discussed.     

Constituent models for quarks and leptons

Constituent models predicting several families of quarks and leptons are presented. They satisfy 't Hooft's anomaly conditions and a “principle of exclusion” introduced here. Some mechanisms for breaking GSW symmetry and generating masses for quarks and leptons consistent with the GIM mechanism are also given.     

2维SU(NC)格点规范理论中矢量介子质量

用改进的格点哈密顿量和变分法,研究了2维SU(NC)规范场中矢量介子质量MV与夸克质量m和Wilson参数 的依赖关系．数值结果表明：对于NC =2、3、4、5、6、7, …,在标度窗口 内,MV/g与m的依赖关系近似为直线;但是矢量介子质量MV不明显依赖于Wilson参数 （这与夸克凝聚的情况不同）. 特别是,当 时, 本文的格点结果与Bhattacharya’s的连续理论强耦合相分析结果很好地一致, 而 的值十分接近Schwinger模型中的相应值.     

Vector meson masses in two-dimensional SU(NC) lattice gauge theory with massive quarks

Using an improved lattice Hamiltonian with massive Wilson quarks a variational method is applied to study the dependence of the vector meson mass Mv on the quark mass m and the Wilson parameter r in in the scaling window 1 ≤ 1/g2 ≤ 2, Mv/g is approximately linear in m, but Mv/g obviously does not depend on r (this differs from the quark condensate). Particularly for m → 0 our numerical results agree very well with Bhattacharya's analytical strong coupling result in the continuum, and the value of ((e)Mv/(e)m) |mm=0 in two-dimensional SU(NC) lattice gauge theory is very close to that in Schwinger model.     

Asymptotic chiral symmetry,meson masses and decay constants

Weinberg’s spectral function sum rules are examined to study the axial vector mass spectrum at the level of SU(4). New mass relations and general mass constraints are derived to predict the masses of the charmed axial vector mesons and theI=0 pseudoscalar decay constants.     

Constituent quarks in nuclear matter and the Nolen-Schiffer anomaly

We investigate the density dependence of the neutronproton mass difference using the Nambu and Jona-Las-inio model in combination with the Isgur-Karl constituent quark model. The decrease of the constituent quark masses with increasing density reduces then-p mass difference in the proper way to help resolving the Nolen-Schiffer anomaly. We point out however, that in the presence of vector interactions, this effect is less pronounced than previously suggested.     

Constituent gluons in the presence of heavy quarks

The formalism necessary to describe bag model constituent gluons in the presence of heavy sources is presented. Numerical values for energies and magnetic moments of low-lying modes are given, as well as some applications relevant to the phenomenology of hybrid \(\bar QqG\) states.     

Hard pions and axial meson exchange currents in nuclear physics

Starting from the hard meson method we develop a consistent approach to the problem of the axial meson exchange currents (MEC). This method incorporates the current algebra and PCAC together with the vector dominance and allows one to study the pion as well as heavy-meson exchanges on an equal footing. Using a minimal, chiral and approximately gauge-invariant phenomenological Lagrangian (PL) model for the A_1ρπ system we construct the two-nucleon axial MEC operator in the tree approximation. This operator automatically possesses the correct chiral SU(2) × SU(2) transformation properties and has the smoothest momentum dependence which is allowed within the combined current algebra and vector dominance approaches. In the given model, we consider the non-Born part of the amplitude N + J^A → n + π and demonstrate that in the soft pion limit, it exactly coincides with the PCAC prediction.     

Inclusive production of soft pions

Amplitudes for inclusive production of pions at zero four-momentum ine ⁺?e ^?, hadron-hadron, and lepton-hadron collisions are computed using traditional soft pion techniques. However, the extrapolation to physical momenta appears to be problematical. Tests involving difference cross sections at relatively low energies are suggested.     

Quark masses from the vector meson spectrum

We investigate a matching arrangement between the VMD and the quark model in which the structure of the latter determines the spectrum of vector meson masses and their couplings to the photon. Current quark masses are in turn determined by the spectrum of vector meson masses of the corresponding flavour family.     

Constituent quark masses from modified perturbative QCD

A recently proposed modified perturbative expansion for QCD incorporating gluon condensation is employed to evaluate the quark and gluon self-energy corrections in first approximation. The results predict mass values of 1/3 of the nucleon mass for the light quarks u, d, and s and a monotonously growing variation with the current mass. The only phenomenological input is that is evaluated up to order as a function of the unique parameter C defining the modified propagator, and then C is fixed to give a current estimate of . The light quarks u and d as a result are found to be confined and the s, c, b and t ones show damped propagation modes, suggesting a model for the large differences in stability between the nucleons and the higher resonances. The above properties of quark modes diverge from the fully confinement result following from the similar gluon propagator previously considered by Munczek and Nemirovski. On the other hand, the condensate effects on the gluon self-energy furnish a tachyonic mass shell as predicted by the Fukuda analysis of gluon condensation in QCD. Received: 28 September 2001 / Revised version: 15 November 2001 / Published online: 8 February 2002     

Bounds on the number and masses of quarks and leptons

We assume weak, electromagnetic and strong interactions to be asymptotically divergent, and to become strong at very large energies, of the order of the Plank mass. In this picture, the “low-energy” couplings (i.e. in the 10² GeV region) must be near the infrared stable point, and this allows us to put bounds on the number of elementary fermions (quarks and leptons). Similar assumptions on the Higgs couplings give bound on the fermion and on the Higgs boson masses. We consider the cases where weak and electromagnetic interactions are described by the gauge groups SU(2) ? U(1) or SU(2)_R ? U(1). The weak neutral current mixing angle is computed in both cases.     

Predictions of duality for the charmed meson masses

The constraints of duality via FESR's are applied to the processes P+P→P+V, using particles with a new quantum number (charm) as both external and internal (resonance saturation) states. The results are independent of any detailed dynamics or symmetry schemes, as well as independent of coupling strengths. We use the masses of the recently-discovered D and D¹ to set the scale. We predict , m_F = 1938 ± 33 MeV, . Thus slopes of Regge trajectories for charmed mesons are predicted to be substantially smaller than those for ordinary mesons.     

Pseudoscalar meson masses in unitarized chiral perturbation theory

This contribution summarizes the work explained in arXiv:hep-ph/0608290 where we perform a non-perturbative chiral study of the masses of the lightest pseudoscalar mesons. The pseudoscalar self-energies are calculated by the evaluation of the scalar self-energy loops with full S-wave meson-meson amplitudes taken from Unitary Chiral Perturbation Theory (UCHPT). These amplitudes, among other features, contain the lightest nonet of scalar resonances σ, f ₀(980), a ₀(980) and κ. The self-energy loops are regularized by a proper subtraction of the infinities within a dispersion relation formulation of the amplitudes. Values for the bare masses of pions and kaons and the η ₈ mass are obtained. We then match to the self-energies from standard Chiral Perturbation Theory (CHPT) to O(p ⁴) and resum higher orders from our calculated scalar self-energies. The dependence of the self-energies on the quark masses allows a determination of the ratio of the strange-quark mass over the mean of the lightest-quark masses, m _s/ , in terms of the O(p ⁴) CHPT low-energy constant combinations 2L ^r ₈ - L ^r ₅ and 2L ^r ₆ - L ^r ₄. In this way, we give a range for the values of these low-energy counterterms and for 3L ₇ + L ^r ₈, once the η-meson mass is invoked. The low-energy constants are further constraint by performing a fit to the recent MILC lattice data on the pseudoscalar masses, and m _s/ = 25.6±2.5 results. This value is consistent with 24.4±1.5 from CHPT and phenomenology and more marginally with the value 27.4±0.5 obtained from pure perturbative chiral extrapolations of the MILC lattice data to physical values of the lightest-quark masses.     

Hard pions and axial meson exchange current effects in negative muon capture in deuterium

The contribution of the axial meson exchange current effects to the doublet transition rate in the reaction μ^? +d → 2n+ ν_μ is calculated by using the minimal, chiral and approximately gauge invariant Lagrangian model for the A₁ρπ system. The contribution from the ρ-π weak decay process current usually considered is found to be nearly cancelled by that from the A₁ pole graph which is prescribed by the underlying invariance principles. Correct treatment of the N¹ propagator in the N¹ excitation current of the pion range leads to ≈ 30 % suppression of the N¹ effect.