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Gauge independent Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Quenched QED

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arxiv hep-ph/9407350 v2 pith:3CUKWXEG submitted 1994-07-21 hep-ph

Gauge independent Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Quenched QED

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In quenched QED we construct a non-perturbative fermion-boson vertex that ensures the fermion propagator satisfies the Ward-Takahashi identity, is multiplicatively renormalizable, agrees with perturbation theory for weak couplings and has a critical coupling for dynamical mass generation that is strictly gauge independent. This is in marked contrast to the rainbow approximation in which the critical coupling changes by 50% just between the Landau and Feynman gauges. The use of such a vertex should lead to a more believable study of mass generation.

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