Nambu-Jona-Lasinio like models and the low-energy effective action of QCD

May, 1992
48 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 390 (1993) 501-541
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Report number:
  • CERN-TH-6521-92,
  • CPT-92-P-2710

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Abstract:
We present a derivation of the low energy effective action of an extended Nambu Jona-Lasinio (ENJL) model to O(p 4)O(p~4) in the chiral counting. Two alternative scenarios are considered on how the ENJL model could originate as a low energy approximation to QCD. The low energy effective Lagrangian we derive includes the usual pseudoscalar Goldstone modes, as well as the lower scalar, vector and axial-vector degrees of freedom. By taking appropriate limits, we recover most of the effective low-energy models discussed in the literature; in particular the gauged Yang-Mills vector Lagrangian, the Georgi-Manohar constituent quark-meson model, and the QCD effective action approach model. Another property of the ensuing effective Lagrangian is that it incorporates most of the short-distance relations which follow from QCD. (We derive these relations in the presence of all possible gluonic interactions to leading order in the 1/Nc1/N_c-expansion.) Finally the numerical predictions are compared to the experimental values of the low energy parameters
  • Jona-Lasinio-Nambu model
  • effective action
  • symmetry: chiral
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking
  • mean field approximation
  • coupling constant: axial-vector
  • axial-vector: coupling constant
  • numerical calculations: interpretation of experiments
  • bibliography
  • expansion 1/N