Published March 1999 | Version v1
Journal article

Instanton effects and chiral symmetry breaking in QCD2

Description

In this paper we discuss the spontaneous breakdown of chiral symmetry in Quantum Chromodynamics by considering gluonic instanton configurations in the partition function. It is shown that in order to obtain nontrivial fermionic correlators in a two dimensional gauge theory for the strong interactions among quarks, a regular instanton background has to be taken into account. We work over massless quarks in the fundamental representation of SU(Nc). For large Nc, massive quarks are also considered

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Identifiers

PII
S092056329900198X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
74
Journal Issue
1-3
Journal Page Range
p. 368-371
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE7

Conference

Title
High energy physics international Euroconference on quantum chromodynamics
Acronym
QCD 98
Dates
2-8 Jul 1998
Place
Montpellier (France)

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
34064417
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
CHIRAL SYMMETRY; CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; GLUONS; INSTANTONS; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUARKS; STRONG INTERACTIONS; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY BREAKING
Descriptors DEC
BASIC INTERACTIONS; BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INTERACTIONS; LIE GROUPS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUASI PARTICLES; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS

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Copyright (c) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.