Light front distribution of the chiral condensate

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2013.09.040zbMATH Open1331.81299arXiv1308.4708OpenAlexW2143890962MaRDI QIDQ5963928FDOQ5963928

Lei Chang, Craig D. Roberts, Sebastian M. Schmidt

Publication date: 26 February 2016

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The pseudoscalar projection of the pion's Poincare'-covariant Bethe-Salpeter amplitude onto the light-front may be understood to provide the probability distribution of the chiral condensate within the pion. Unlike the parton distribution amplitudes usually considered and as befitting a collective effect, this condensate distribution receives contributions from all Fock space components of the pion's light-front wave-function. We compute this condensate distribution using the Dyson-Schwinger equation (DSE) framework and show the result to be a model-independent feature of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Our analysis establishes that this condensate is concentrated in the neighbourhood of the boundaries of the distribution's domain of support. It thereby confirms the dominant role played by many-particle Fock states within the pion's light-front wave function in generating the chiral condensate on the light-front and verifies that light-front longitudinal zero modes do not play a material role in that process.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.4708

zbMATH Keywords

quantum chromodynamicsDyson-Schwinger equationsdynamical chiral symmetry breakinglight-front quantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Bethe-Salpeter and other integral equations arising in quantum theory (81Q40)

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• Goldstone boson's valence-quark distribution
• Light-front realization of chiral symmetry breaking
• Basic features of the pion valence-quark distribution function
• Chiral sum rule on the light front and the 3D image of the pion

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