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Tests of large-Nc QCD from hadronic tau decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We use the Aleph data on vector and axial-vector spectral functions to test simple duality properties of QCD in the large Nc limit, which emerge in the approximation of a minimal hadronic ansatz of a spectrum of narrow states. These duality properties relate the short- and long-distance behaviours of specific correlation functions, which are order parameters of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking, in a way that we find well supported by the data.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0007338,
  title  = {Tests of large-Nc QCD from hadronic tau decay},
  author = {S. Peris and B. Phily and E. de Rafael},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0007338},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures