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$\pi$- and $K$-Mesons Properties for Large $N_f$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-11-04 v3 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The restoration of dynamical chiral symmetry for a higher number of light-quark flavors NfN_f implies suppression of the dynamically generated quark mass. The study of various larger values of NfN_f may have a greater impact on the internal structure of light hadrons. In this work, we study the properties of the π\pi- (pion) and KK-meson (kaon), such as the mass, condensate, and leptonic decay constant, for various NfN_f. We use the symmetry-preserving vector-vector flavor-dependent contact interaction model of quark. The dynamical quark masses are calculated using the Schwinger-Dyson equation (SDE). The masses of pion (mπm_{\pi}) and kaon (mKm_{K}) for different values of NfN_f and are determined using the homogeneous Bethe-Salpeter equation. For fixed Nc=3N_c=3 and NfN_f is increased, the dynamically generated quark mass Mu/dM_{u/d} ( mass of up and down quarks), strange quark mass (MsM_s), meson in-condensate κ(π,K)1/3\kappa^{1/3}_{(\pi,K)}, and decay constant f(π,K)f_{(\pi, K)}. monotonically decrease as a function of NfN_f, except for the pion and kaon mass m(π,K)m_{(\pi, K)}, which increase above a critical value of NfN_f around 88. This is the region where chiral symmetry is restored and the pion and kaon behave as free particles, similar to thier behavior in the the presence of a heat bath. The results obtained for fixed Nf=2N_f=2 and Nc=3N_c=3 are fairly in decent agreement with experimentally calculated statistics and previous model calculations based on the Schwinger-Dyson equation (SDE) and Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE).

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@article{arxiv.2401.11186,
  title  = {$\pi$- and $K$-Mesons Properties for Large $N_f$},
  author = {Aftab Ahmad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.11186},
  year   = {2025}
}

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25 pages, 7figures