Spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry as a consequence of confinement

It is shown that at the leading order in large N-expansion a confinement potential, linearly rising at large distances, leads to a non-local four-quark interaction which realizes spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry in the same way as the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model does. The Nambu-Jona-Lasinio phenomenological constant G1, which is responsible for SBCS, is expressed in terms of the string tension and the confinement radius. The dynamical quark mass is found as a function on the string tension m=2√σ/π=0.33GeV at σ=0.27 GeV2. (author). 13 refs