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The Physics of Instantons in the pseudoscalar and vector meson mixing

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v3

Abstract

When the theory of Quantum Chromodynamics was introduced, it was to explain the observed phenomena of quark confinement and scaling. It was then discovered that the emergence of instantons is an essential consequence of this theory. This led to unanticipated explanations not only for the anomalously high masses of the η\eta and the η\eta' particles, but also for the remarkable differences that had been observed in the mixing angles for the pseudoscalar mesons and the vector mesons.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9903189,
  title  = {The Physics of Instantons in the pseudoscalar and vector meson mixing},
  author = {Gerard 't Hooft},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9903189},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

17 pages plain TeX, 1 figure PostScript. Revised paper. A numerical error in previous version needed to be corrected