Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
1999-12-14
Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 034502
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
32 pages, LaTeX with 14 eps figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.034502
I address the question of how much of QCD in the chiral limit is reproduced by instantons. After reconstructing the instanton content of smoothed Monte Carlo lattice configurations, I compare hadron spectroscopy on this instanton ensemble to the spectroscopy on the original ``physical'' smoothed configurations using a chirally optimised clover fermion action. By studying the zero mode zone in simple instances I find that the optimised action gives a satisfactory description of it. Through the Banks-Casher formula, instantons by themselves are shown to break chiral symmetry but hadron correlators on the instanton backgrounds are strongly influenced by free quark propagation. This results in unnaturally light hadrons and a small splitting between the vector and the pseudoscalar meson channels. Superimposing a perturbative ensemble of zero momentum gauge field fluctuations (torons) on the instantons is found to be enough to eliminate the free quarks and restore the physical hadron correlators. I argue that the torons that are present only in finite volumes, are probably needed to compensate the unnaturally large finite size effects due to the lack of confinement in the instanton ensemble.
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