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Facets of confinement and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking
P. Maris, A. Raya, C. D. Roberts +1
The gap equation is a cornerstone in understanding dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and may also provide clues to confinement. A symmetry-preserving truncation of its kernel enab…
A kinetic approach to eta' production from a CP-odd phase
D. B. Blaschke, F. M. Saradzhev, S. M. Schmidt +1
The production of (eta,eta')- mesons during the decay of a CP-odd phase is studied within an evolution operator approach. We derive a quantum kinetic equation starting from the Wit…
The Character of Goldstone Bosons
M. B. Hecht, C. D. Roberts, S. M. Schmidt
A succinct review of the QCD gap equation and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking; their connection with Bethe-Salpeter equations and resolving the dichotomous nature of the pion; t…
Plasma production and thermalisation in a strong field
D. V. Vinnik, A. V. Prozorkevich, S. A. Smolyansky +4
Aspects of the formation and equilibration of a quark-gluon plasma are explored using a quantum kinetic equation, which involves a non-Markovian, Abelian source term for quark and…
Neutron electric dipole moment: Constituent-dressing and compositeness
M. B. Hecht, C. D. Roberts, S. M. Schmidt
Contributions to the neutron's EDM, are calculated using a well-constrained Ansatz for the nucleon's Poincare' covariant Fadde'ev amplitude. The momentum-dependent quark dressing a…
Pair creation and plasma oscillations
A. V. Prozorkevich, D. V. Vinnik, S. M. Schmidt +2
We describe aspects of particle creation in strong fields using a quantum kinetic equation with a relaxation-time approximation to the collision term. The strong electric backgroun…