Chiral Symmetry Breaking in QCD

Abstract

Chiral Symmetry Breaking (CSB) is derived in QCD starting from the QCD Lagrangian and using Field Correlators Method (FCM). The kernel in the resulting equations responsible for CSB is directly connected to confinement, and therefore both phenomena occur and vanish together as supported by lattice data. Chiral Lagrangian and quark-meson Lagrangian are derived with explicit coefficients and compared to standard expressions. Spectrum of Nambu-Goldstone mesons and their radial excitations is calculated in good agreement with experiment.

Comments: 9 pages, no figures, to appear in the Proceedings Quark-2004, the 13th International Seminar on HE Physics, Pushkinskie Gory, Russia, May 24-30, 2004