Continuum Strong QCD: Confinement and Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking
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Continuum strong QCD is the application of models and continuum quantum field theory to the study of phenomena in hadronic physics, which includes; e.g., the spectrum of QCD bound states and their interactions. Herein I provide a Dyson-Schwinger equation perspective, focusing on qualitative aspects of confinement and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in cold, sparse QCD, and also elucidating consequences of the axial-vector Ward-Takahashi identity and features of the heavy-quark limit.
28 pages, 12 figures, LaTeX2e; Contribution to the proceedings of the "Confinement" Research Program at the Erwin Schroedinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, Austria, Coordinated by W. Lucha, A. Martin and F. Schoeberl, May-July, 2000
28 pages, 12 figures, LaTeX2e; Contribution to the proceedings of the "Confinement" Research Program at the Erwin Schroedinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, Austria, Coordinated by W. Lucha, A. Martin and F. Schoeberl, May-July, 2000