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Partial quenching and chiral symmetry breaking

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2014-10-06 v1

Abstract

Partially quenched chiral perturbation theory assumes that valence quarks propagating on gauge configurations prepared with sea quarks of different masses will form a chiral condensate as the valence quark mass goes to zero. I present a counterexample involving non-degenerate sea quarks where the valence condensate does not form.

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@article{arxiv.1410.0883,
  title  = {Partial quenching and chiral symmetry breaking},
  author = {Michael Creutz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0883},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure. Contribution to the 32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory 23-28 June, 2014, Columbia University

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