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Instantons at work

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v4 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

The aim of this review is to demonstrate that there exists a coherent picture of strong interactions, based on instantons. Starting from the first principles of QCD - via the microscopic mechanism of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking - one arrives to a quantitative description of light hadron properties, with no fitting parameters. The discussion of the importance of instanton-induced interactions in soft high-energy scattering is new.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0212026,
  title  = {Instantons at work},
  author = {Dmitri Diakonov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0212026},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

57 pages including 13 figures. Final version, to be published in Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys