Spontaneous Breaking of Chiral Symmetry as a Consequence of Confinement

Abstract

We show that at the leading order in the large-$N$ expansion a lattice QCD motivated linear rising confinement potential at large distances leads to a non-local four-quark interaction that realizes spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry (SBCS) in the same way the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model does. The dynamical quark mass $m$, which represents the solution of the gap-equation, is proportional to the square root of the string tension $\sigma$ and takes the form at the leading order in the large-$N$ expansion $m=2 \sqrt{\sigma}/\pi$ with $\sigma=0.27$ GeV$^2$. The Nambu-Jona-Lasinio phenomenological constant $G_1$, which is responsible for SBCS, is expressed in terms of the string tension and the confinement radius.