Georges Ripka

Quarks Bound by Chiral Fields

The Quark Structure of the Vacuum and of Light Mesons and Baryons

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The structure of light hadrons is dominated by the spontaneously broken chiral symmetry of the strongly interacting (QCD) vacuum. Low energy properties of light hadrons can be described in terms of quarks interacting with chiral fields. This book gives a comprehensive account of a large class of models which describe the restoration of chiral symmetry at high temperature and density, the effective interactions between quarks, mesons as solutions of the Beth-Salpeter equation, and baryons in terms of solitions which rotate in flavor space. An in-depth analysis of regularization is given, including regularization by delocalized fields. Symmetry conserving approximations are formulated using both path integral and Feynmann graph methods. The book's style is pedagogical and well-suited to graduate and Ph.D. students who want to learn the techniques used in present day research. It can also serve as a reference for research and lecture courses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780198517849
• ISBN-10: 019851784X
• Artikelnr.: 23001109

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Quark bilinear operators
2: Effective quark interactions
3: The NambuJona-Lasinio model
4: The equivalent linear sigma model
5: Regularization
6: Correlation functions: basic properties
7: Symmetry conserving approximations
8: Correlation functions in the NambuJona-Lasinio model
9: Overview of results in the meson sector
10: Further chiral quark models
11: Chiral Solitons
12: Rotations of solitons in flavor space
A. SU(N) matrices, Dirac matrices, Fierz transformations
B. The SU(N) rotor
C. Bosonization
References