QCD -vacua from the chiral limit to the quenched limit

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.11.002zbMATH Open1326.81243arXiv1408.1189OpenAlexW1977022548MaRDI QIDQ895378FDOQ895378

Authors: Kazuya Mameda 

Publication date: 2 December 2015

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

Abstract: We investigate the dependence of the QCD vacuum structure on the $heta$-angle and quark mass, using the Di-Vecchia--Veneziano model. Although the Di-Vecchia--Veneziano model is a chiral effective model, it contains the topological properties of the pure Yang--Mills theory. It is shown that within this model, the ground state energies for all $heta$ are continuous functions of quark mass from the chiral limit to the quenched limit, even including the first order phase transition at $heta=pi$. Based on this effective model, we discuss (i) how the ground state depends on quark mass, and (ii) why the phase transition at $heta=pi$ is present both in the chiral and quenched limit. In order to analyze the relation between quark mass and the $heta$-vacua, we calculate the chiral condensate as a function of quark mass. Also, considering the presence of the innate metastable states included in the QCD $heta$-vacuum, we also give a unified understanding of the phase transitions at $heta=pi$ in the chiral and quenched limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1189

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zbMATH Keywords

Vecchia-Veneziano model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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