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Critical coupling for dynamical chiral-symmetry breaking

Craig D. Roberts* and Bruce H. J. McKellar

  • Research Centre for High Energy Physics, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia

  • *Present address: Nuclear Theory Group, B203, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.

Phys. Rev. D 41, 672 – Published 15 January, 1990

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.41.672

Abstract

We study chiral-symmetry breaking in a model of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). In our study we make a critical analysis of an approximation that is often used in QCD and other theories to simplify the Schwinger-Dyson equation for the fermion self-energy. Solving the Schwinger-Dyson equation numerically, without employing the approximation, we find that chiral symmetry is restored when the running coupling constant at zero momentum transfer falls below 0.890.

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