Published October 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Pseudoscalar meson radial excitations

  • 1. Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4843 (United States)
  • 2. Fachbereich Physik, Universitaet Rostock, D-18051 Rostock (Germany)

Description

Goldstone modes are the only pseudoscalar mesons to possess a nonzero leptonic decay constant in the chiral limit when chiral symmetry is dynamically broken. The decay constants of their radial excitations vanish. These features and aspects of their impact on the meson spectrum are illustrated using a manifestly covariant and symmetry-preserving model of the kernels in the gap and Bethe-Salpeter equations

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
70
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 042203-042203.5
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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(c) 2004 The American Physical Society