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Exploring the light-quark interaction

Nuclear Theory 2010-11-02 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Two basic motivations for an upgraded JLab facility are the needs: to determine the essential nature of light-quark confinement and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking (DCSB); and to understand nucleon structure and spectroscopy in terms of QCD's elementary degrees of freedom. During the next ten years a programme of experiment and theory will be conducted that can address these questions. We present a Dyson-Schwinger equation perspective on this effort with numerous illustrations, amongst them: an interpretation of string-breaking; a symmetry-preserving truncation for mesons; the nucleon's strangeness sigma-term; and the neutron's charge distribution.

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@article{arxiv.0906.4304,
  title  = {Exploring the light-quark interaction},
  author = {Lei Chang and Ian C. Cloet and Bruno El-Bennich and Thomas Klahn and Craig D. Roberts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.4304},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

8 pages, 7 figures. Contribution to the Proceedings of the Workshop on the Physics of the Excited Nucleon (NSTAR2009), Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 19-22 April 2009

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