Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2011-07-20
Chinese Journal of Physics, 49 (2011) pp. 955-1004
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
28 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables. Version to appear in the Chinese Journal of Physics
Scientific paper
We provide a brief review of recent progress in the study of mesons using QCD's Dyson-Schwinger equations. Along the way we touch on aspects of confinement and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking but in the main focus upon: exact results for pseudoscalar mesons, including aspects of the eta-eta' problem; a realisation that the so-called vacuum condensates are actually an intrinsic, localised property of hadrons; an essentially nonperturbative procedure for constructing a symmetry-preserving Bethe-Salpeter kernel, which has enabled a demonstration that dressed-quarks possess momentum-dependent anomalous chromo- and electromagnetic moments that are large at infrared momenta, and resolution of a longstanding problem in understanding the mass-splitting between rho- and a1-mesons such that they are now readily seen to be parity partners in the meson spectrum; features of electromagnetic form factors connected with charged and neutral pions; and computation and explanation of valence-quark distribution functions in pseudoscalar mesons. We argue that in solving QCD, a constructive feedback between theory and extant and forthcoming experiments will enable constraints to be placed on the infrared behaviour of QCD's beta-function, the nonperturbative quantity at the core of hadron physics.
Chang Lei
Roberts Craig D.
Tandy Peter. C.
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