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Anomalous Action of QCD from the General Quark Propagator
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 20 Feb 2006 · 36 references
Pith's reading: The Wess-Zumino term's coefficient is shown to equal one for any quark propagator whose mass function dominates at low momentum and vanishes at high momentum.
The paper
The paper claims
The Wess-Zumino term's coefficient is shown to equal one for any quark propagator whose mass function dominates at low momentum and vanishes at high momentum.
The reading
This paper starts from a dressed quark propagator, which is a mathematical object that includes two effects: the quark mass function B, which appears when quarks get an effective mass from the strong force (chiral symmetry breaking), and the wave function renormalization A, which changes how quarks propagate. The authors insert this dressed propagator into a determinant formula for the effective action, following a method from their earlier work, and calculate the piece with an odd number of Levi-Civita tensors, which produces the Wess-Zumino term.
Their main finding is a tidy one. The coefficient of the Wess-Zumino term is an integral over A and B, but that integral is exactly one whenever the ratio A squared times momentum squared over B squared goes to zero at small momentum and infinity at large momentum. Realistic QCD propagators satisfy this condition. So the Wess-Zumino term emerges automatically from the dressed propagator, and if the quark mass function vanishes, the term disappears. The paper also claims that the next correction is gauge invariant, but it does not actually write that correction down.
Extended reading notes
Core claim
The paper's central assertion, stated in the abstract and developed in Section III A, is that the coefficient of the Wess-Zumino term is given by the QCD-dependent integral C in (3.21) and equals unity whenever A^2(k^2)k^2/B^2(k^2) tends to infinity as k^2 goes to infinity and to zero as k^2 goes to zero, so that the Wess-Zumino term is dynamically generated by chiral symmetry breaking. The paper also claims in the abstract that the next-to-leading-order anomalous action is gauge invariant and QCD dynamics dependent.
Load-bearing premise
The effective action (2.44) is posited, not derived: the QCD dynamics are encoded by A(-bar-nabla^2_Omega) and B(-bar-nabla^2_Omega) acting on the fermion determinant, with A and B depending only on the vector covariant Laplacian. The authors call this a minimal extension and note that a general source-dependent propagator would introduce many more functions. If the true effective action has additional spinor or tensor structures, the coefficient formula (3.21) and the next-to-leading-order conclusion could change. This enters at equations (2.34) through (2.44) in Section II.
Original abstract
The anomalous action of the chiral effective theory to $\mathcal{O}(p^4)$ is investigated by generalizing the consideration in \cite{ma02} with including the wave function part in the general quark propagator. It is found that the QCD dynamics dependence of the Wess-Zumino term is explicit and this dependence means that the QCD chiral symmetry must be broken dynamically in the low energy region for dynamically generating the Wess-Zumino term. In addition, we found that the next to leading order anomalous action in the momentum expansion of the chiral perturbation theory is gauge invariant and QCD dynamics dependent.
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The anomalous action of the chiral effective theory to $\mathcal{O}(p^4)$ is investigated by generalizing the consideration in \cite{ma02} with including the wave function part in the general quark propagator. It is found that the QCD dynamics dependence of the Wess-Zumino term is explicit and this dependence means that the QCD chiral symmetry must be broken dynamically in the low energy region for dynamically generating the Wess-Zumino term. In addition, we found that the next to leading order anomalous action in the momentum expansion of the chiral perturbation theory is gauge invariant and QCD dynamics dependent.
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| # | sentence | role | the authors' own work | states the main conclusion | strength |
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| s0 | The anomalous action of the chiral effective theory to $\mathcal{O}(p^4)$ is investigated by generalizing the consideration in \cite{ma02} with including the wave function part in the general quark propagator. | contribution 0.90 | 0.82 | 0.08 | asserted 0.91 |
| s1 | It is found that the QCD dynamics dependence of the Wess-Zumino term is explicit and this dependence means that the QCD chiral symmetry must be broken dynamically in the low energy region for dynamically generating the Wess-Zumino term. | interpretation 0.53 | 0.92 | 0.75 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | In addition, we found that the next to leading order anomalous action in the momentum expansion of the chiral perturbation theory is gauge invariant and QCD dynamics dependent. | result 1.00 | 0.95 | 0.18 | asserted 1.00 |
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