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Chiral Symmetry and Quark Confinement

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

In the physical vacuum of QCD, the energy density of light-quark fields strongly coupled to slowly varying gluon fields can be negative, and so a condensate of pairs of quarks and antiquarks of nearly opposite momenta forms which breaks chiral symmetry, confines quarks, and makes gluons massive.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9812312,
  title  = {Chiral Symmetry and Quark Confinement},
  author = {Kevin Cahill},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9812312},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, latex, very minor changes