Chiral symmetry patterns of excited mesons with the Coulomb-like linear confinement
Abstract
The spectrum of q q mesons in a model where the only interaction is a linear Coulomb-like instantaneous confining potential is studied. The single-quark Green function as well as the dynamical chiral symmetry breaking are obtained from the Schwinger-Dyson (gap) equation. Given the dressed quark propagator, a complete spectrum of "usual" mesons is obtained from the Bethe-Salpeter equation. The spectrum exhibits restoration of chiral and U(1)A symmetries at large spins and/or radial excitations. This property is demonstrated both analytically and numerically. At large spins and/or radial excitations higher degree of degeneracy is observed, namely all states with the given spin fall into reducible representations [(0,1/2) (1/2,0)] × [(0,1/2) (1/2,0)] that combine all possible chiral multiplets with the given J and n. The structure of the meson wave functions as well as the form of the angular and radial Regge trajectories are investigated.
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