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Parity Doubling and SU(2)L x SU(2)R Restoration in the Hadron Spectrum

Robert L. Jaffe, Dan Pirjol, Antonello Scardicchio

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0511081

Abstract

We construct the most general nonlinear representation of chiral SU(2)L x SU(2)R broken down spontaneously to the isospin SU(2), on a pair of hadrons of same spin and isospin and opposite parity. We show that any such representation is equivalent, through a hadron field transformation, to two irreducible representations on two hadrons of opposite parity with different masses and axial couplings. This implies that chiral symmetry realized in the Nambu-Goldstone mode does not predict the existence of degenerate multiplets of hadrons of opposite parity nor any relations between their couplings or masses.

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