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Chiral symmetry and spectrum of Euclidean Dirac operator

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

After recalling some connections between the Spontaneous Breakdown of Chiral Symmetry (SBChS) and the spectrum of the Dirac operator for Euclidean QCD on a torus, we use this tool to reconsider two related issues : the Zweig rule violation in the scalar channel and the dependence of SBChS order parameters on the number N_f of massless flavours. The latter would result into a great variety of SBChS patterns in the (N_f,N_c) plane, which could be studied through so-called Leutwyler-Smilga sum rules in association with lattice computations of the Dirac spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9911285,
  title  = {Chiral symmetry and spectrum of Euclidean Dirac operator},
  author = {Sebastien Descotes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9911285},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

6 pages, no figure, class file included. Talk given at the XVII International School of Physics "QCD: Perturbative or Nonperturbative", Lisbon, Portugal, 29 September - 4 October 1999, to appear in the Proceedings