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Gluons as Goldstone Bosons when Flavor Symmetry is Broken Spontaneously

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The mechanism where flavor symmetry is broken spontaneously is discussed within a scalar QCD model with effective three-meson couplings. For sufficiently large coupling the model is unstable with respect to quantum loops from mesonic vacuum polarization. It is argued that color and gluons naturally can account for the Goldstone degrees of freedom expected when flavor symmetry is spontaneously broken.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9703262,
  title  = {Gluons as Goldstone Bosons when Flavor Symmetry is Broken Spontaneously},
  author = {Nils A. Tornqvist},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9703262},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, RevTeX, 2 Figures