Published September 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

Confinement and Chiral-Symmetry Breaking in the Covariant Spectator Theory

  • 1. Centro de Física Teórica de Partículas (CFTP), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisbon (Portugal)
  • 2. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Évora, 7000-671, Évora (Portugal)

Description

We show that in the framework of the covariant spectator theory (CST), the equations for the quark anti-quark bound state and for the quark mass function satisfy the requirement of chiral symmetry, incorporating spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking. We then present the results for the pion electromagnetic form factor obtained within a dynamical quark model formulated in Minkowski space and based on the CST. (author)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Few-Body Systems
Journal Volume
56
Journal Issue
6-9
Journal Page Range
p. 389-394
ISSN
0177-7963
CODEN
FBSYEQ

Conference

Title
Theory and Experiment for Hadrons on the Light-Front
Acronym
Light Cone 2014
Dates
26-30 May 2014
Place
Raleigh, NC (United States)