Ratio of a strange quark mass ms to up or down quark mass mu,d predicted by a quark propagator in the frameworkof the chiral perturbation theory

Based on the fully dressed quark propagator and chiral perturbation theory, we study the ratio of the strange quark mass m_s to up or down quark mass m_u,d. The ratio is related to the determination of quark masses which are fundamental input parameters of QCD Lagrangian in the Standard Model of particle physics and can not be directly measured since the quark is confined within a hadron. An accurate determination of these QCD free parameters is extremely important for both phenomenological and theoretical applications. We begin with a brief introduction to the non-perturbation QCD theory, and then study the mass ratio in the framework of the chiral perturbation theory (χ PT) with a parameterized fully dressed quark propagator which describes confining fully dressed quark propagation and is analytic everywhere in the finite complex p²-plane and has no Lehmann representation so there are no quark production thresholds in any theoretical calculations of observable data. Our prediction for the ratio m_s/m_u,d is consistent with other model predictions such as Lattice QCD, instanton model, QCD sum rules and the empirical values used widely in the literature. As a by-product of this study, our theoretical results, together with other predictions of physical quantities that used this quark propagator in our previous publications, clearly show that the parameterized form of the fully dressed quark propagator is an applicable and reliable approximation to the solution of the Dyson-Schwinger Equation of quark propagator in the QCD.     

Quasipartiele model for the quark-gluon plasma: Equation of state near Tc

We test the quark mass dependence implemented in the quasiparticle dispersion relations of our quasiparticle model for the QCD equation of state by comparing with recently available lattice QCD data employing almost physical quark masses. In addition, we emphasize the capability of our model to successfully describe lattice QCD results (or imaginary chemical potential and to analytically continue the latter to real chemical potential.     

Spin structure of the nucleon: QCD evolution,lattice results and models

The question how the spin of the nucleon is distributed among its quark and gluon constituents is still a subject of intense investigations. Lattice QCD has progressed to provide information about spin fractions and orbital angular momentum contributions for up and down quarks in the proton, at a typical scale m² \mu^{2}_{} ∼ 4 GeV² . On the other hand, chiral quark models have traditionally been used for orientation at low momentum scales. In the comparison of such model calculations with experiment or lattice QCD, fixing the model scale and the treatment of scale evolution are essential. In this paper, we present a refined model calculation and a QCD evolution of lattice results up to next-to-next-to-leading order. We compare this approach with the Myhrer-Thomas scenario for resolving the proton spin puzzle.     

Deconfinement Phase Transition Including Perturbative QCD Corrections in （Proto）neutron Star Matter

Deconlinement phase transition and neutrino trapping in （proto）neutron star matter are investigated in a chiral hadronic model （also referred to as the FST model） for the hadronic phase （HP） and in the color-flavor-locked （CFL） quark model for the deconlined quark phase. We include a perturbative QCD correction parameter αs in the CFL quark matter equation of states. It is shown that the CFL quark core with K^0 condensation forms in neutron star matter with the large value of αs. If the small value of αs is taken, hyperons suppress the CFL quark phase and the liP is dominant in the high-density region of （proto）neutron star matter. Neutrino trapping makes the fraction of the CFL quark matter decrease compared with those without neutrino trapping. Moreover, increasing the QCD correction parameter as or decreasing the bag constant B and the strange quark mass ms can make the fraction of the CFL quark matter increase, simultaneously, the fraction of neutrino in protoneutron star matter increases, too. The maximum masses and the corresponding radii of （proto）neutron stars are not sensitive to the QCD correction parameter αs.     

Quark Gluon Condensate,Virtuality and Susceptibility of QCD Vacuum

We study vacuum of QCD in this work. The structure of non-local quark vacuum condensate, values of various local quark and gluon vacuum condensates, quark-gluon mixed vacuum condensate, quark and gluon virtuality in QCD vacuum state, quark dynamical mass and susceptibility of QCD vacuum state to external field are predicted by use of the solutions of Dyson-Schwinger equations in “rainbow” approximation with a modeling gluon propagator and three different sets of quark-quark interaction parameters. Our theoretical predictions are in good agreement with the correspondent empirical values used widely in literature, and many other theoretical calculations. The quark propagator and self-energy functions are also obtained from the numerical solutions of Dyson-Schwinger equations. This work is centrally important for studying non-perturbative QCD, and has many important applications both in particle and nuclear physics.     

规范场和夸克动力学模型--关于QCD和层子模型的议论

文章讨论了夸克QCD模型和层子模型的关系，说明夸克动力学模型的基础是非亚贝尔规范场理论．层子模型是半唯象理论，没有动力学互作用的机制．QCD由于以非亚贝尔规范场为动力学互作用机制，在高能行为有渐近自由的重要性质．层子模型是低能束缚态的唯象性质的模型，与渐近自由是完全无关．强调“渐近自由”是一个独立于夸克模型的物理概念，它的理论基础是非亚贝尔规范场理论；当把非亚贝尔规范场作为夸克相互作用建立了夸克的动力学模型——量子色动力学（quantum chromodynamics，QCD）；层子模型是想把静态夸克模型发展为动力学模型，但它走的路线与QCD完全不同，层子的互作用不涉及非亚贝尔规范场，与渐近自由是不同概念和不同思想和不同考察区域；文章还指出夸克动力学的QCD模型同层子模型是哲学思想不同，物理思想也不相同的路线，层子模型没有接纳非亚贝尔规范场而未能达成创新的成果．文章也强调三十多年前层子模型研究的创新意识和团队精神是我们值得推崇的优秀传统．     

Covariant QCD modeling of light meson physics

We summarize recent progress in soft QCD modeling based on the set of Dyson-Schwinger equations truncated to ladder-rainbow level. This covariant approach to hadron physics accommodates quark confinement and implements the QCD one-loop renormalization group behavior. We compare the dressed quark propagator, pseudoscalar and vector meson masses as a function of quark mass, and the → ππ coupling to recent lattice-QCD data. The error in the Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner relation with increasing quark mass is quantified by comparison to the exact pseudoscalar mass relation as evaluated within the ladder-rainbow Dyson-Schwinger model.     

Kertész line and embedded monopoles in QCD

We propose a new class of defects in QCD which can be viewed as embedded monopoles made of quark and gluon fields. These objects are explicitly gauge invariant and they closely resemble the Nambu monopoles in the standard electroweak model. We argue that the "embedded QCD monopoles" are proliferating in the quark-gluon plasma phase while in the low-temperature hadronic phase the spatial proliferation of these objects is suppressed. At realistic quark masses and zero chemical potential the hadronic and quark-gluon phases are generally believed to be connected by a smooth crossover across which all thermodynamic quantities are nonsingular. We argue that these QCD phases are separated by a well-defined boundary-known as the Kertész line in condensed matter systems-associated with the onset of the proliferation of the embedded QCD monopoles in the quark-gluon plasma phase.     

非微扰QCD真空中夸克真空凝聚的结构(英文)

基于Dyson-Schwinger方程(DSEs)所确定的夸克传播子和算符成积展开(OPE),在彩虹近似下,预言了QCD真空中非定域夸克真空凝聚的结构。这种结构由夸克自能函数Af和Bf决定,通过数值求解DSEs就可以得到这些自能函数。但是,直接数值求解DSEs方程非常复杂,这里采用Roberts和Williams提出的参数化方法,用参数化的夸克传播函数σf v(p2)和σf s(p2)计算夸克自能函数。同时,也计算了定域的夸克真空凝聚值,夸克胶子混合的真空凝聚值,以及夸克的虚度。理论预言和计算结果均与标准QCD求和定则、格点QCD和瞬子模型的理论结果大致相符。和这些模型的结果相比,参数化方法得到的轻夸克(u,d,s)的定域真空凝聚偏大,这主要是由于模型依赖导致的。与u,d夸克相比,s夸克的真空凝聚比较大,这是因为s夸克自身质量较大的缘故。当然,Roberts-Williams参数化的夸克传播子只是一个经验公式,只能近似描述夸克的传播。     

From QCD to Quark Potential Model

The connection between phenomenological parameters in the quark potential model and fundamental QCD parameters is established by studying the fermionic three-point Green's functions in QCD incorporating the effects of nonperturbative vacuum. The scale of chiralsymmetry-breaking leading to the constituent quark picture is estimated.     

Gluonic Distribution in the Constituent Quark and Nucleon Induced by the Instantons

Abstract Instanton effects can give large contribution to strong interacting processes, especially at the energy scale where perturbative QCD is no longer valid. However instanton contribution to the gluon contribution in constituent quark and nucleon has never been calculated before. Based on both the constituent quark picture and the instanton model for QCD vacuum, we calculate the unpolarized and polarized gluon distributions in the constituent quark and in the nucleon for the first time. We find that the pion field plays an important role in producing both the unpolarized and the polarized gluon distributions.     

Extended Quark Potential Model from Random Phase Approximation

The quark potential model is extended to include the sea quark excitation using the random phase approx-imation. The effective quark interaction preserves the important QCD properties - chiral symmetry and confinementsimultaneously. A primary qualitative analysis shows that the π meson as a well-known typical Goldstone boson andthe other mesons made up of valence qq quark pair such as the ρ meson can also be described in this extended quarkpotential model.     

QCD equation of state: Physical quark masses and asymptotic temperatures

Within a phenomenological quasiparticle model, the quark mass and temperature dependence of the QCD equation of state is discussed and compared with lattice QCD results. Different approximations for the quasiparticle dispersion relations are employed, scaling properties of the equation of state with quark mass and deconfinement temperature are investigated and a continuation to asymptotically large temperatures is presented.     

Manohar-Georgi 模型的QCD分析及核子的一种有效手征夸克模型

Manohar 和Georgi 提出了一种基于QCD的有效组份夸克模型(MG 模型),用于解释唯象夸克模型成功的原因。最近Weinberg 指出,该模型在大Nc (夸克颜色数目) 极限下是可重整化的。从QCD 配分泛函出发,对MG模型的有效理论进行了分析,并通过将胶子-夸克耦合做唯象的Skyrme 作用近似,提出了核子的一种有效手征夸克模型,它包括了夸克和pion 云以及pion 云的非线性自耦合。利用有效手征夸克模型计算的核子静态性质的结果与实验值相符很好。Manohar-Georgi proposed an effective constituent quark model(MG model) based on QCD, explaining the success of quark models. Recently, Weinberg has shown that the MG model is renormalizable in the large Nc limit of the color number. In this paper, we present a functional QCD analysis of the MG model and propose an effective chiral quark model of the nucleons, which includes the nonlinear interaction between quark-pions and pions among themselves byapproximating the quark-gluon coupling with the phenomenological Skyrme interaction. The calculation for the nucleon static properties is in good agreement with experimental data.     

QCD phase diagram according to the center group

We study an effective theory for QCD at finite temperature and density which contains the leading center symmetric and center symmetry breaking terms. The effective theory is studied in a flux representation where the complex phase problem is absent and the model becomes accessible to Monte Carlo techniques also at finite chemical potential. We simulate the system by using a generalized Prokof'ev-Svistunov worm algorithm and compare the results to a low temperature expansion. The phase diagram is determined as a function of temperature, chemical potential, and quark mass. The shape and quark mass dependence of the phase boundaries are as expected for QCD. The transition into the deconfined phase is smooth throughout, without any discontinuities or critical points.     

Nonperturbative condensate contributions to the effective quark-gluon coupling

We study the effective quark-gluon coupling at low-energy scale, which is defined as the amplitude of a quark emitting or absorbing a gluon with some momentum at low-energy scale. This amplitude is determined from the fermionic three-point Green’s functions of QCD including the leading order contributions of nonperturbative condensates through use of the operator-product expansion. By this approach, we discuss the relationship between the constituent quark and the quark of QCD Lagrangian, and estimate the scale of chiral symmetry breaking and the size of a constituent quark in participating the strong interaction process, such as form factors and radii.     

Truncation of QCD with four-quark interaction

We examine conditions for models with fourquark interaction and a finite cutoff to be a reasonable approximation to the QCD at low energies. The flavourdependent part of QCD vacuum energy is identified with an effective potential for quark model. The independence on the cutoff and the scale anomaly of QCD is exploited in the quark sector to establish the scaling law for QCD-motivated effective coupling constants. On the contrary the insensitivity of effective potential in respect to intrinsic field dilatations leads to a selection rule for parameters of quark models to make a truncation of QCD.     

The proton spin sum rule chiral bag prediction,an update

We reevaluate a quark model prediction using the new QCD evolution function calculated to the 3 loop order and conclude that this model compares favorably with the new experimental results.     

A new slant on hadron structure

Rather than regarding the restriction of current lattice QCD simulations to quark masses that are 5–10 times larger than those observed as a problem, we note that this presents a wonderful opportunity to deepen our understanding of QCD. Just as it has been possible to learn a great deal about QCD by treating N _c as a variable, so the study of hadron properties as a function of quark mass is leading us to a deeper appreciation of hadron structure. As examples we cite progress in using the chiral properties of QCD to connect hadron masses, magnetic moments, charge radii and structure functions calculated at large quark masses within lattice QCD with the values observed physically.     

Quark Mass Dependence of Nucleon Magnetic Moment and Charge Radii

Understanding hadron structure within the framework of QCD is an extremely challenging problem. Our purpose here is to explain the model-independent consequences of the approximated chiral symmetry of QCD for two famous results concerning the quark structure of the nucleon. We show that both the apparent success of the constituent quark model in reproducing the ratio of proton to neutron magnetic moments and the apparent success of the Foldy term in reproducing the observed charge radius of the neutron are coincidental. That is, a relatively small change of the current quark mass would spoil both results.