Chiral symmetry restoration and the string picture of hadrons

Abstract

QCD string picture of highly excited hadrons very naturally explains parity doubling once the chiral symmetry is restored high in the spectrum. In particular, the spin-orbit and tensor interactions of quarks at the ends of the string, related to dynamics of the string, vanish. High in the spectrum there appears higher degree of degeneracy, namely parity doublets with different angular momentum cluster around energy of the string in the given quantum state.

Comments: 7 pages, LaTeX, 2 figs. The paper has been further expanded in order to make the point and physics more clear. To appear in Phys. Lett. B