Chiral symmetry breaking in confining theories

  • T. Banks*
  • , A. Casher
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The behaviour of the chiral order parameter in gauge theories is analysed. It is shown that in the confining phase chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken. We employ a new lattice version of the Dirac equation which avoids spectral multiplication.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)103-125
Number of pages23
JournalNuclear Physics, Section B
Volume169
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1980

Funding

Funders
Israel Commission for Basic Research
US-Israel bi-national science foundation
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation

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