Instantons and spontaneous color symmetry breaking

Nov, 2000
9 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 525 (2002) 277-282
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Report number:
  • HD-THEP-00-54

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Abstract:
The instanton interaction in QCD generates an effective potential for scalar quark-antiquark condensates in the color singlet and octet channels. For three light quark flavors the cubic term in this potential induces an octet condensate and ``spontaneous breaking'' of color in the vacuum. Realistic masses of the rho- and eta'-mesons are compatible with renormalization-group-improved instanton perturbation theory.
Note:
  • 8 pages,LaTex,modified instanton vertex,improved mass of eta' Report-no: HD-THEP-00-54
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • effective potential
  • quark antiquark: condensation
  • quark: flavor
  • instanton
  • vector meson: mass
  • perturbation theory: higher-order
  • renormalization group
  • color: symmetry breaking
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking