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Chiral symmetry breaking in continuum QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-04-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present a quantitative analysis of chiral symmetry breaking in two-flavour continuum QCD in the quenched limit. The theory is set-up at perturbative momenta, where asymptotic freedom leads to precise results. The evolution of QCD towards the hadronic phase is achieved by means of dynamical hadronisation in the non-perturbative functional renormalisation group approach. We use a vertex expansion scheme based on gauge-invariant operators and discuss its convergence properties and the remaining systematic errors. In particular we present results for the quark propagator, the full tensor structure and momentum dependence of the quark-gluon vertex, and the four-fermi scatterings.

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@article{arxiv.1411.7978,
  title  = {Chiral symmetry breaking in continuum QCD},
  author = {Mario Mitter and Jan M. Pawlowski and Nils Strodthoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.7978},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

18 pages, 7 figures, additional figure, additional references

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