Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-02-16
Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys.56:232-277,2006
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
42 pages, 15 figures. The text has been improved, references have been added. To be published in Progress in Particle and Nucl
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.ppnp.2005.05.001
The modern status of basic low energy QCD parameters is reviewed. It is demonstrated, that the recent data allows one to determine the light quark mass ratios with an accuracy 10-15%. The general analysis of vacuum condensates in QCD is presented, including those induced by external fields. The QCD coupling constant alpha_s is found from the tau-lepton hadronic decay rate. V-A spectral functions of tau-decay are used for construction of the V-A polarization operator Pi_{V-A}(s) in the complex s-plane. The operator product expansion (OPE) is used up to dimension D=10 and the sum rules along the rays in the complex s-plane are constructed. The best values of quark condensate and alpha_s<0|qq|0>^2 are found. The value of quark condensate is confirmed by considering the sum rules for baryon masses. Gluon condensate is found in four ways: by considering of V+A polarization operator based on the tau-decay data, by studying the sum rules for polarization operators momenta in charmonia in vector, pseudoscalar and axial channels. All of these determinations are in agreement and result in <(alpha_s/pi)G^2 > =0.005 \pm 0.004 GeV^4. Valence quark distributions in proton are calculated in QCD using the OPE in proton current virtuality. The quark distributions agree with those found from the deep inelastic scattering data. The same value of gluon condensate is favoured.
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