Abstract

We discuss spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and the quark bilinear condensate in large-Nc quantum chromodynamics (QCD). It is known that the existence of the η′ meson is implied in large-Nc QCD, as pointed out by Witten[27] and Veneziano[28]. First, we show that the existence of η′ and the Ward–Takahashi identities implies the existence of Nambu–Goldstone bosons from chiral symmetry breaking SU(Nf)L × SU(Nf)RSU(Nf)V. Second, we show that a QCD inequality implies a non-zero lower bound on the quark bilinear condensate.

Details

Title
Chiral symmetry breaking and the quark bilinear condensate in large-N QCD
Author
Sato, Ryosuke 1 

 Department of Physics, Osaka University , Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan 
Publication year
2022
Publication date
Sep 2022
Publisher
Oxford University Press
e-ISSN
20503911
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3171492002
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Physical Society of Japan. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.