Facets of confinement and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking
Abstract
The gap equation is a cornerstone in understanding dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and may also provide clues to confinement. A symmetry-preserving truncation of its kernel enables proofs of important results and the development of an efficacious phenomenology. We describe a model of the kernel that yields: a momentum-dependent dressed-quark propagator in fair agreement with quenched lattice-QCD results; and chiral limit values: fpi= 68 MeV and <q-bar q> = -(190 MeV)3. It is compared with models inferred from studies of the gauge sector.
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