Confinement contains condensates
Abstract
Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and its connection to the generation of hadron masses has historically been viewed as a vacuum phenomenon. We argue that confinement makes such a position untenable. If quark-hadron duality is a reality in QCD, then condensates, those quantities that have commonly been viewed as constant empirical mass scales that fill all space-time, are instead wholly contained within hadrons; i.e., they are a property of hadrons themselves and expressed, e.g., in their Bethe-Salpeter or light-front wave functions. We explain that this paradigm is consistent with empirical evidence and incidentally expose misconceptions in a recent Comment.
- Publication:
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Physical Review C
- Pub Date:
- June 2012
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1202.2376
- Bibcode:
- 2012PhRvC..85f5202B
- Keywords:
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- 12.38.Aw;
- 11.30.Rd;
- 11.15.Tk;
- 24.85.+p;
- General properties of QCD;
- Chiral symmetries;
- Other nonperturbative techniques;
- Quarks gluons and QCD in nuclei and nuclear processes;
- Nuclear Theory;
- High Energy Physics - Lattice;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 2 figures