Charge symmetry breaking via rho - omega mixing from model quark - gluon dynamics

Mar, 1994
14 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 335 (1994) 282-288
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Report number:
  • ANL-PHY-7718-TH-94,
  • KSUCNR-004-94

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Abstract:
The quark-loop contribution to the ρ 0ω\rho~0-\omega mixing self-energy function is calculated using a phenomenologically successful QCD-based model field theory in which the ρ 0\rho~0 and ω\omega mesons are composite qˉq\bar{q}q bound states. In this calculation the dressed quark propagator, obtained from a model Dyson-Schwinger equation, is confining. In contrast to previous studies, the meson-qˉq\bar{q}q vertex functions are characterised by a strength and range determined by the dynamics of the model; and the calculated off-mass-shell behaviour of the mixing amplitude includes the contribution from the calculated diagonal meson self-energies. The mixing amplitude is shown to be very sensitive to the small isovector component of dynamical chiral symmetry breaking. The spacelike quark-loop mixing-amplitude generates an insignificant charge symmetry breaking nuclear force.