Exploring the light-quark interaction

Two basic motivations for an upgraded JLab facility are the needs： to determine the essential nature of light-quark confinement and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking （DCSB）; and to understand nucleon structure and spectroscopy in terms of QCD＇s elementary degrees of freedom. During the next ten years a programme of experiment and theory will be conducted that can address these questions. We present a Dyson- Schwinger equation perspective on this effort with numerous illustrations, amongst them： an interpretation of string~breaking; a symmetry-preserving truncation for mesons; the nucleon＇s strangeness σ-term; and the neutron＇s charge distribution.     

Electromagnetic form factor via Minkowski and Euclidean Bethe-Salpeter amplitudes

The electromagnetic form factors (FF’s) calculated through the Euclidean Bethe-Salpeter (BS) amplitude and through the light-front (LF) wave function are compared with the one found using the BS amplitude in Minkowski space. The FF expressed through the Euclidean BS amplitude (both within and without static approximation) considerably differs from the Minkowski one, whereas the FF found in the LF approach is almost indistinguishable from it.     

The Spin Symmetry of Heavy Baryons in the Framework of the Bethe-Salpeter Equation

We study the baryons containing a heavy quark in the framework of Bethe-Salpeter (BS) equation. The most general forms of the BS wavefunctions are given. In the heavy-quark limit we simplify the BS equations and we show clearly that the spin symmetry exists in heavy baryon states.     

Solving Bethe-Salpeter equation in Minkowski space

We develop a new method of solving the Bethe-Salpeter (BS) equation in Minkowski space. It is based on projecting the BS equation on the light-front (LF) plane and on the Nakanishi integral representation of the BS amplitude. This method is valid for any kernel given by the irreducible Feynman graphs. For massless ladder exchange, our approach reproduces analytically the Wick-Cutkosky equation. For massive ladder exchange, the numerical results coincide with the ones obtained by Wick rotation.     

Calculating the Relativistic Wave Functions of 11S0 and 13S1 Positronium

Based on the relativistic Bethe-Salpeter (BS) equation, the positronium wavefunctions in Euclidean momentum space are obtained. Meanwhile the energy levels of positronium ground states 1¹S₀ and 1³S₁ are fitted to be 6.7934 eV and 6.7929 eV respectively, which qualitatively agree with the previous theoretical values. It is shown that the BS theory is valid and reliable to treat positronium.     

Calculating the Relativistic Wave Functions of 11S0 and 13S1 Positronium

Based cn the relativistic Bethe-Salpeter (BS) equation, the positronium wavefunctions in Euclidean momentum space are obtained. Meanwhile the energy levels of positronium ground states 11S0 and 13S1 are fitted to be 6.7934 eV and 6.7929 eV respectively, which qualitatively agree with the previous theoretical values. It is shown that the BS theory is valid and reliable to treat positronium.     

Instantaneous Bethe-Salpeter Equation and Its Exact Solution

We present an approach to solve Bethe-Salpeter (BS) equations exactly without any approximation if the kernel of the BS equations exactly is instantaneous, and take positronium as an example to illustrate the general features of the exact solutions. The key step for the approach is from the BS equations to derive a set of coupled and well-determined integration equations in linear eigenvalue for the components of the BS wave functions equivalently, which may be solvable numerically under a controlled accuracy, even though there is no analytic solution. For positronium, the exact solutions precisely present corrections to those of the corresponding Schrödinger equation in order v¹ (v is the relative velocity) for eigenfunctions, in order v² for eigenvalues, and the mixing between S and D components in J^PC=1^-- states etc., quantitatively. Moreover, we also point out that there is a questionable step in some existent derivations for the instantaneous BS equations if one is pursuing the exact solutions. Finally, we emphasize that one should take the O(v) corrections emerging in the exact solutions into account accordingly if one is interested in the relativistic corrections for relevant problems to the bound states.     

W-T Identities,Normalization of the BS Wave Function and Properties of the Pion

We discuss some problems concerned with the normalization of the BS wave function in connection with Ward-Thkahashi identities in the Lorentz covariant Bethe-Salpeter formalism proposed in the previous work. Physical quantities of the pion as a Goldstone boson, including the π⁰ → 2γ amplitude are calculated in the QCD motivated models and results are in agreement with the experimental data.     

Ground state wave functions in the hyperspherical formalism for nuclei with A>4

The general formulation of a technically advantageous method to find the ground state solution of the Schrödinger equation in configuration space for systems with a number of particles A greater than 4 is presented. The wave function is expanded in pair-correlated hyperspherical harmonics beyond the lowest order approximation and then calculated in the Faddeev approach. A recent efficient recursive method to construct antisymmetric A-particle hyperspherical harmonics is used. The accuracy is tested for the bound state energies of nuclei with A = 6–12. The high quality of the obtained results becomes evident from a comparison with other approaches.     

Bethe-Salpeter equations: mesons beyond the rainbow-ladder truncation

We investigate masses of light mesons from a coupled system of Dyson–Schwinger (DSE) and Bethe– Salpeter equations (BSE),taking into account dominant non-Abelian,sub-leading Abelian,and dominant pion cloud contributions to the dressed quark-gluon vertex.The axial-vector Ward-Takahashi identity preserving Bethe-Salpeter kernel is constructed and the spectrum of light mesons calculated.Our model goes significantly beyond the rainbow-ladder.We find that sub-leading Abelian corrections are further dynamically suppressed,and that our results supersede early qualitative predictions from simple truncation schemes.     

Instantaneous Formulation for Transitions Between Two Instantaneous Bound States and Its Gauge Invariance

We have precisely derived a ＂rigorous instantaneous formulation＂ for transitions between two bound states when the bound states are well-described by instantaneous Bethe-Salpeter （BS） equation （i.e. the kernel of the equation is instantaneous ＂occasionally＂）. The obtained rigorous instantaneous formulation, in fact, is expressed as an operator sandwiched by two ＂reduced BS wave functions＂ properly, while the reduced BS wave functions appearing in the formulation are the rigorous solutions of the instantaneous BS equation, and they may relate to Schroedinger wave functions straightforwardly. We also show that the rigorous instantaneous formulation is gauge-invariant with respect to the Uem（1） transformation precisely, if the concerned transitions are radiative. Some applications of the formulation are outlined.     

New method for the theory of hadron scattering

A new method is suggested for analyzing the scattering of particles whose interaction is mediated by the exchange of field quanta. The conventional approach uses the Lehmann, Symanzik, and Zimmerman (LSZ) method for formulating the asymptotic boundary condition constraints. Then after making the appropriate renormalization subtractions one finds Bethe-Salpeter (BS) equations for the transition amplitudes. The covariant form of the BS equations makes the construction of solutions arduous. Approximate reductions to noncovariant form are generally employed. Our method is based on an alternative to the LSZ technique and leads directly to a set of coupled noncovariant integral equations for the transition operators. No approximation is required to achieve this result. Our equations are similar to the Lippmann-Schwinger equations for many-body scattering. The complexity of these equations is governed by the maximum number of field quanta permitted to be present at any instant.     

Delta Properties in the Rainbow-Ladder Truncation of Dyson–Schwinger Equations

We present a calculation of the three-quark core contribution to nucleon and Δ-baryon masses and Δ electromagnetic form factors in a Poincaré-covariant Faddeev approach. A consistent setup for the dressed-quark propagator, the quark–quark, quark–’diquark’ and quark–photon interactions is employed, where all ingredients are solutions of their respective Dyson–Schwinger or Bethe–Salpeter equations in a rainbow-ladder truncation. The resulting Δ electromagnetic form factors concur with present experimental and lattice data.     

The Bethe-Salpeter equation and the Low Energy Theorems for \pi N scattering

The Bethe-Salpeter (BS) amplitude for scattering is evaluated at the off-mass-shell points corresponding to the Low Energy Theorems (LET) based on PCAC and current algebra. The results suggest a way of maintaining constructing between BS equation and LET.Received: 30 September 2002, Published online: 22 October 2003PACS: 25.80.Dj Pion elastic scattering - 11.30.Rd Chiral symmetries - 24.80. + y Nuclear tests of fundamental interactions and symmetries     

Studying pion effects in the quark propagator

Within the framework of Schwinger-Dyson and Bethe-Salpeter equations we investigate the importance of pions for the quark-gluon interaction. To this end we choose a truncation for the quark-gluon vertex that includes intermediate pion degrees of freedom and adjust the interaction such that unquenched lattice results for various current quark masses are reproduced. After extrapolation to the physical point we find a considerable contribution of the pion back reaction to the quark mass function as well as to the chiral condensate.     

Cross-ladder effects in Bethe-Salpeter and light-front equations

The Bethe-Salpeter (BS) equation in Minkowski space for scalar particles is solved for a kernel given by a sum of ladder and cross-ladder exchanges. The solution of corresponding light-front (LF) equation, where we add the time-ordered stretched boxes, is also obtained. Cross-ladder contributions are found to be very large and attractive, whereas the influence of stretched boxes is negligible. Both approaches --BS and LF-- give very close results.     

On The Contribution of the P and D Partial-Wave States to the Binding Energy of the Triton in the Bethe-Salpeter-Faddeev Approach

The influence of the partial-wave states with nonzero orbital moment of the nucleon pair on the binding energy of the triton T(nnp) in the relativistic case is considered. The relativistic generalization of the Faddeev equation in the Bethe-Salpeter formalism is applied. Two-nucleon t matrix is obtained from the Bethe-Salpeter equation with separable kernel of nucleon-nucleon interaction of the rank one. The kernel form factors are the relativistic type of the Yamaguchi functions. The following two-nucleon partial-wave states are considered: ¹S₀, ³S₁, ³D₁, ³P₀, ¹P₁, ³P₁. The system of the integral equations are solved by using the iteration method. The binding energy of the triton and three-nucleon amplitudes are found. The contribution of the P and D states to the binding energy of triton is given.