Novel feature of the vector meson solution in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model

1991
8 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 261 (1991) 221-228
  • Published: 1991

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
Based on the extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, we study the meson spectrum, in particular, the vector-meson masses (1) by solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation and (2) by using a spectral-function method which has been recently proposed by several authors. The two approaches give very different behaviors of the vector mesons when the vector-channel becomes too weak to support bound-state solutions. The solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation changes smoothly from a bound state to a “virtual-state” solution reminiscent of an s-wave virtual state in the nonrelativistic potential problem. We discuss why this behaviour is missing in a spectral-function method used recently in the literature.
  • Jona-Lasinio-Nambu model
  • vector meson: mass spectrum
  • mass spectrum: vector meson
  • Bethe-Salpeter equation
  • spectral representation
  • numerical calculations