Goldstone pion and other mesons using a scalar confining interaction
- 1 September 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 50 (5), 3332-3349
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.50.3332
Abstract
A covariant wave equation for qq¯ interactions with an interaction kernel composed of the sum of constant vector and linear scalar confining interactions is solved for states with two quarks with identical mass. The model includes a Nambu–Jona-Lasinio–like mechanism which links the dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry to the spontaneous generation of quark mass and the appearance of a low mass Goldstone pion. A novel feature of this approach is that it automatically explains the small mass of the pion even though the linear potential is a scalar interaction in Dirac space, and hence breaks chiral symmetry. Solutions for mesons composed of light quarks (π,ρ, and low lying excited states) and heavy quarks (, J/Ψ, and low lying excited states) are presented and discussed.
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