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Confinement contains condensates

  • Stanley J. Brodsky
  • , Craig D. Roberts
  • , Robert Shrock
  • , Peter C. Tandy
  • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  • University of Southern Denmark
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Kent State University

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Abstract

Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and its connection to the generation of hadron masses has historically been viewed as a vacuum phenomenon. We argue that confinement makes such a position untenable. If quark-hadron duality is a reality in QCD, then condensates, those quantities that have commonly been viewed as constant empirical mass scales that fill all space-time, are instead wholly contained within hadrons; i.e., they are a property of hadrons themselves and expressed, e.g., in their Bethe-Salpeter or light-front wave functions. We explain that this paradigm is consistent with empirical evidence and incidentally expose misconceptions in a recent Comment.

Original languageEnglish
Article number065202
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume85
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 21 2012

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