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arxiv: hep-ph/0209318 · v1 · submitted 2002-09-26 · ✦ hep-ph

Perturbative QCD with Quark and Gluon Condensates

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keywords gluonquarkperturbativegroundstatevacuumalphabroken
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The quark <\bar\psi \psi> and gluon <F_{\mu\nu}F^{\mu\nu}> vacuum expectation values are non-vanishing at low orders in \alpha_s when the perturbative ground state includes quark and gluon pairs. This offers possibilities of studying the effects of a non-trivial vacuum using formally exact perturbative methods. The QCD Feynman rules are modified only for the free, on-shell quark and gluon propagators at zero four-momentum. Gauge and lorentz invariance is maintained, while chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken by the ground state.

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