Vacuum pseudoscalar susceptibility
Vacuum pseudoscalar susceptibility
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevc.81.032201
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发表时间:
2009-12
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Lei Chang;Yu-xin Liu;C. Roberts;Yuan-mei Shi;Wei-Min Sun;H. Zong
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作者:
Lei Chang;Yu-xin Liu;C. Roberts;Yuan-mei Shi;Wei-Min Sun;H. Zong
We derive a novel model-independent result for the pion susceptibility in QCD via the isovector-pseudoscalar vacuum polarization. In the neighbourhood of the chiral limit, the pion susceptibility can be expressed as a sum of two independent terms. The first expresses the pion-pole contribution. The second is identical to the vacuum chiral susceptibility, which describes the response of QCD's ground state to a fluctuation in the current-quark mass. In this result one finds a straightforward explanation of a mismatch between extant estimates of the pion susceptibility.