Foundations of the Constituent Quark Model

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17 March 1996

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.nucl-th/9603023

Abstract

'Constituent quarks' means massive quarks, in contrast to the nearly massless u,d,s quarks of the QCD lagrangian. The dynamical or constituent masses appear owing to the spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in QCD. A realistic mechanism of the chiral symmetry breaking is provided by instantons. Therefore, I review the present status of the QCD instanton vacuum, emphasizing the mechanism of chiral symmetry breaking and of the generation of the constitutent quark mass. I end up with the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio-type effective theory to which QCD is reduced at low momenta.

Keywords

CONSTITUENT QUARK
SYMMETRY BREAKING
CHIRAL SYMMETRY
MASSIVE QUARKS
MEANS MASSIVE
QUARK MODEL
INSTANTON
QUARKS
QCD

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