The masses and decay constants of the light vector mesons ρ/ω, φ and K ⋆ are studied within a ladder-rainbow truncation of the coupled Dyson-Schwinger and Bethe-Salpeter equations of QCD with a model 2-point gluon function. The approach is consistent with quark and gluon confinement, reproduces the correct one-loop renormalization group behavior of QCD, generates dynamical chiral symmetry breaking, and preserves the relevant Ward identities. The one phenomenological parameter and two current quark masses are fixed by requiring that the calculated f π , m π and m K are correct. The resulting f K is within 3% of the experimental value. For the vector mesons, all eight transverse covariants are included and the dominant ones are identified; the complete angle dependence of the amplitudes is also retained. The calculated values for the masses m ρ , m φ and m K ⋆ are within 5%, while the decay constants f ρ , f φ and f K ⋆ for electromagnetic and leptonic decays are within 10% of the experimental values.
Independent of assumptions about the form of the quark-antiquark scattering kernel we derive the explicit relation between the pion Bethe-Salpeter amplitude, Gamma_pi, and the quark propagator in the chiral limit; Gamma_pi necessarily involves a non-negligible gamma_5 gamma.P term (P is the pion four-momentum). We also obtain exact expressions for the pion decay constant, f_pi, and mass, both of which depend on Gamma_pi; and demonstrate the equivalence between f_pi and the pion Bethe-Salpeter normalisation constant in the chiral limit. We stress the importance of preserving the axial-vector Ward-Takahashi identity in any study of the pion itself, and in any study whose goal is a unified understanding of the properties of the pion and other hadronic bound states.Comment: 11 pages, LaTeX, elsart.st
The rainbow truncation of the quark Dyson-Schwinger equation is combined with the ladder Bethe-Salpeter equation for the meson amplitudes and the dressed quark-photon vertex in a self-consistent Poincaré-invariant study of the pion and kaon electromagnetic form factors in impulse approximation. We demonstrate explicitly that the current is conserved in this approach and that the obtained results are independent of the momentum partitioning in the Bethe-Salpeter amplitudes. With model gluon parameters previously fixed by the condensate, the pion mass and decay constant, and the kaon mass, the charge radii and spacelike form factors are found to be in good agreement with the experimental data.
Quenched lattice-QCD data on the dressed-quark Schwinger function can be
correlated with dressed-gluon data via a rainbow gap equation so long as that
equation's kernel possesses enhancement at infrared momenta above that
exhibited by the gluon alone. The required enhancement can be ascribed to a
dressing of the quark-gluon vertex. The solutions of the rainbow gap equation
exhibit dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and are consistent with confinement.
The gap equation and related, symmetry-preserving ladder Bethe-Salpeter
equation yield estimates for chiral and physical pion observables that suggest
these quantities are materially underestimated in the quenched theory: |
The rainbow truncation of the quark Dyson-Schwinger equation is combined with the ladder Bethe-Salpeter equation for the dressed quark-photon vertex to study the low-momentum behavior of the pion electromagnetic form factor. With model gluon parameters previously fixed by the pion mass and decay constant, the pion charge radius r π is found to be in excellent agreement with the data. When the often-used Ball-Chiu Ansatz is used to construct the quark-photon vertex directly from the quark propagator, less than half of r 2 π is generated. The remainder of r 2 π is seen to be attributable to the presence of the ρ-pole in the solution of the ladder Bethe-Salpeter equation.
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