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Confinement contains condensates

Nuclear Theory 2014-08-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and its connection with the generation of hadron masses has historically been viewed as a vacuum phenomenon. We argue that confinement makes such a position untenable. If quark-hadron duality is a reality in QCD, then condensates, those quantities that were commonly viewed as constant empirical mass-scales that fill all spacetime, are instead wholly contained within hadrons; viz., they are a property of hadrons themselves and expressed, e.g., in their Bethe-Salpeter or light-front wave functions. We explain that this paradigm is consistent with empirical evidence, and incidentally expose misconceptions in a recent Comment.

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@article{arxiv.1202.2376,
  title  = {Confinement contains condensates},
  author = {Stanley J. Brodsky and Craig D. Roberts and Robert Shrock and Peter C. Tandy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.2376},
  year   = {2014}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures

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