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Quark Propagator with electroweak interactions in the Dyson-Schwinger approach

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-04-05 v1

Abstract

Motivated by the non-negligible dynamical backcoupling of the electroweak interactions with the strong interaction during neutron star mergers, we study the effects of the explicit breaking of C, P and flavor symmetry on the strong sector. The quark propagator is the simplest object which encodes the consequences of these breakings. To asses the impact, we study the influence of especially parity violation on the propagator for various masses. For this purpose the functional methods in form of Dyson-Schwinger-Equations are employed. We find that explicit isospin breaking leads to a qualitative change of behavior even for a slight explicit breaking, which is in contrast to the expectations from perturbation theory. Our results thus suggest that non-perturbative backcoupling effects could be larger than expected.

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@article{arxiv.1610.02936,
  title  = {Quark Propagator with electroweak interactions in the Dyson-Schwinger approach},
  author = {Walid Ahmed Mian and Axel Maas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.02936},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

9 pages, 5 figures, XIIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, 29. Aug. -3. Sep. 2016, submitted to the proceedings

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