About flavor, spin and color

Abstract

Chiral symmetry breaking (restoration) for SU(N) gauge theories is a topic of great interest and not yet fully explained. We consider the phenomenon as a collective spin effect and determine its behavior in terms of the number of flavors, N_f.

version to be published in Phys. Rev. D

References in corpus (2)

• Chiral phase boundary of QCD at finite temperature
• Scaling laws near the conformal window of many-flavor QCD

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