Published April 1, 1992 | Version v1
Journal article

Approaching low-energy QCD with a gauged, nonlocal, constituent-quark model

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S1A7 (Canada)

Description

We study the minimal constituent-quark model with momentum-dependent quark mass in the presence of SU(3)xSU(3) external gauge fields Vμ(x), Aμ(x), S(x), and P(x). The model generates vertex functions, for any number of external fields and pseudo Goldstone bosons coupling to quarks, saturating the Ward-Takahashi identities of QCD. Parameters in the O(p4) chiral Lagrangian are expressed in terms of the quark mass function Σ(p) and are surprisingly consistent with low-energy QCD. By use of the auxiliary-field method we discuss the relation of the model to the improved ladder approximation in QCD

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
45
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 2534-2541.
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ