TY - JOUR
T1 - Chiral symmetry breaking in a chromomagnetic superconductor
AU - Nair, V. P.
AU - Rosenzweig, C.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank A.P. Balachandran and J. Schechter for discussions. This work was supported by the US Department of Energy under contract number DE-ACO2-76ER03533.
PY - 1983/11/17
Y1 - 1983/11/17
N2 - The superconductivity analogy for the confining phase of QCD is very compelling. We further explore the model and show how it automatically accounts for the spontaneous breakdown of chiral symmetry. We demonstrate that the symmetry is broken to the proper flavor diagonal subgroup, that the quarks acquire a momentum dependent constituent mass and that pions leak into hadron bags. We see that heavy quarks hardly know about chiral symmetry. Finally, we explore various phases of QCD as predicted by our model.
AB - The superconductivity analogy for the confining phase of QCD is very compelling. We further explore the model and show how it automatically accounts for the spontaneous breakdown of chiral symmetry. We demonstrate that the symmetry is broken to the proper flavor diagonal subgroup, that the quarks acquire a momentum dependent constituent mass and that pions leak into hadron bags. We see that heavy quarks hardly know about chiral symmetry. Finally, we explore various phases of QCD as predicted by our model.
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U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(83)90535-X
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(83)90535-X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:48749143309
VL - 131
SP - 434
EP - 438
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
SN - 0370-2693
IS - 4-6
ER -