Continuum Strong QCD: Confinement and Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking

Abstract

Continuum strong QCD is the application of models and continuum quantum field theory to the study of phenomena in hadronic physics, which includes; e.g., the spectrum of QCD bound states and their interactions. Herein I provide a Dyson-Schwinger equation perspective, focusing on qualitative aspects of confinement and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in cold, sparse QCD, and also elucidating consequences of the axial-vector Ward-Takahashi identity and features of the heavy-quark limit.

28 pages, 12 figures, LaTeX2e; Contribution to the proceedings of the "Confinement" Research Program at the Erwin Schroedinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, Austria, Coordinated by W. Lucha, A. Martin and F. Schoeberl, May-July, 2000

References in corpus (10)

• Dyson-Schwinger Equations: Density, Temperature and Continuum Strong QCD
• A Solution to Coupled Dyson-Schwinger Equations for Gluons and Ghosts in Landau Gauge
• The $\pi$, $K^{+}$, and $K^0$ electromagnetic form factors
• T-dependence of pseudoscalar and scalar correlations
• Dimensionally regularized study of nonperturbative quenched QED
• Analytic Form of the One-loop Vertex and of the Two-loop Fermion Propagator in 3-Dimensional Massless QED
• QCD bound states and their response to extremes of temperature and density
• Mass production requires precision engineering
• Baryon Magnetic Moments in a Relativistic Quark Model
• The Gluon Condensate and Running Coupling of QCD

Cited by in corpus (8)

• Dyson-Schwinger equations: a tool for hadron physics
• Aspects of Hadron Physics
• Bethe-Salpeter equation and a nonperturbative quark-gluon vertex
• Plasma production and thermalisation in a strong field
• Non-perturbative Propagators, Running Coupling and Dynamical Mass Generation in Ghost-Antighost Symmetric Gauges in QCD
• A Perspective on Hadron Physics
• Extracting a model quark propagator's spectral density
• Modern Dyson-Schwinger Equation Studies