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Pions as collective modes in the glueball condensate vacuum

  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

The glueball condensate vacuum model is extended to incorporate the effects of light quarks. The resulting model exhibits spontaneous breaking of chiral SU(2)f symmetry, and has a new kind of collective excitations, pions, which are distinct from the usual bag-model-type states. The dynamics of the pions are described by a model, and the parameters qq and f are calculated in terms of the radius R of the vacuum cells. The pion mass is related to qq and mq via the usual partial conservation of axial-vector current relation. The model is extended to broken SU(3)f using lowest-order chiral perturbation theory, and a mass formula for the meson is obtained by including effects of the axial anomaly.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)221-232
Number of pages12
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume36
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1987

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