Instantons at work
arXiv:hep-ph/0212026 · doi:10.1016/S0146-6410(03)90014-7
Abstract
The aim of this review is to demonstrate that there exists a coherent picture of strong interactions, based on instantons. Starting from the first principles of QCD - via the microscopic mechanism of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking - one arrives to a quantitative description of light hadron properties, with no fitting parameters. The discussion of the importance of instanton-induced interactions in soft high-energy scattering is new.
57 pages including 13 figures. Final version, to be published in Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys