Published March 31, 2006 | Version v1
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Parity Doubling and SU(2)LxSU(2)R Restoration in the Hadron Spectrum

  • 1. Center for Theoretical Physics, Laboratory for Nuclear Science, and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)

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We construct the most general nonlinear representation of chiral SU(2)LxSU(2)R broken down spontaneously to the isospin SU(2), on a pair of hadrons of same spin and isospin and opposite parity. We show that any such representation is equivalent, through a hadron field transformation, to two irreducible representations on two hadrons of opposite parity with different masses and axial-vector couplings. This implies that chiral symmetry realized in the Nambu-Goldstone mode does not predict the existence of degenerate multiplets of hadrons of opposite parity nor any relations between their couplings or masses

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
96
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 121601-121601.4
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

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(c) 2006 The American Physical Society