Paramagnetic effect of light quark loops on Chiral Symmetry Breaking

Abstract

We argue that light quark loops produce a paramagnetic suppression of infrared-sensitive order parameters such as <qq>, as the number N_f of light fermions increases. The possibly strong dependence of <qq> on N_f is related to the observed Zweig rule violation in the scalar channel. Presuming the existence of a chiral phase transition for not too large N_f, we discuss the phenomenological possibilities of separately determining the two-flavour and three-flavour condensates and the quark mass ratio r=2m_s/(m_u+m_d). The issue is closely related to the interpretation of new forthcoming precise pi-pi data at low energy.

15 pages, Latex, using JHEP.cls (included), 1 PS figure

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