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arxiv: hep-ph/0011076 · v2 · submitted 2000-11-06 · ✦ hep-ph · nucl-th

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Instantons and color symmetry breaking in the vacuum

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keywords colorbreakinginstantonoctetpotentialvacuumchannelscompatible
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The instanton interaction in QCD generates an effective potential for scalar quark-antiquark condensates in the color singlet and octet channels. For three light quark flavors the cubic term in this potential induces an octet condensate and ``spontaneous breaking'' of color in the vacuum. Realistic masses of the rho- and eta'-mesons are compatible with renormalization-group-improved instanton perturbation theory.

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