Chiral dynamics with confinement versus the standard chiral theory

Abstract

Chiral dynamics is investigated using the chiral confining Lagrangian (CCL), previously derived from QCD with confinement interaction. Based on the calculations of the quark condensate, which is defined entirely by confinement in the zero quark mass limit, one can assert that chiral symmetry breaking occurs not spontaneously but is predetermined by confinement. The expansion of the CCL provides the GMOR relations and the effective chiral Lagrangian, which is used to provide the masses and decay constants of all chiral mesons, including $\eta,\eta'$. For the latter one needs to define a non-chiral component due to confinement, while the orthogonality condition defines the wave functions and the eigenvalues. The resulting masses and decay constants of all chiral mesons are obtained in good agreement with experimental and lattice data.