Quark masses, the Dashen phase, and gauge field topology

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2013.10.003zbMATH Open1343.81211arXiv1306.1245OpenAlexW3100113479MaRDI QIDQ306940FDOQ306940

Authors: Michael Creutz 

Publication date: 1 September 2016

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The CP violating Dashen phase in QCD is predicted by chiral perturbation theory to occur when the up-down quark mass difference becomes sufficiently large at fixed down-quark mass. Before reaching this phase, all physical hadronic masses and scattering amplitudes are expected to behave smoothly with the up-quark mass, even as this mass passes through zero. In Euclidean space, the topological susceptibility of the gauge fields is positive at positive quark masses but diverges to negative infinity as the Dashen phase is approached. A zero in this susceptibility provides a tentative signal for the point where the mass of the up quark vanishes. I discuss potential ambiguities with this determination.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1245

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zbMATH Keywords

chiral symmetrygauge field topologylattice gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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