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A renormalizable extension of the NJL-model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model is supplemented by the quark interaction generated by the one-gluon exchange. The employed gluon propagator exhibits the correct large momentum behavior of QCD, whereas the Landau-pole at low energies is screened. The emerging constituent quark model is one-loop renormalizable and interpolates between the phenomenologically successful Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model at low energies and perturbative QCD at high momenta. Consequently, the momentum dependence of the quark self-energy at high energy coincides with the prediction from perturbative QCD. The chiral phase transition is studied in dependence on the low energy four quark interaction strength in the Dyson-Schwinger equation approach. The critical exponents of the quark self-energy and the quark condensate are obtained. The latter exponent deviates from the NJL-result. Pion properties are addressed by means of the Bethe-Salpeter equation. The validity of the Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner relation is verified. Finally, we study the conditions which are necessary to allow for an accurate estimate of observables by the NJL-model as well as the shortcoming of the NJL-model due to its inherent non-renormalizability.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9603264,
  title  = {A renormalizable extension of the NJL-model},
  author = {Kurt Langfeld and Christiane Kettner and Hugo Reinhardt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9603264},
  year   = {2009}
}

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25 pages, LaTeX, 5 figures included using epsf, estimate of the numerical errors added, journal version, in press by Nucl. Phys. A