Chin. Phys. Lett.  2021, Vol. 38 Issue (7): 071201    DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/38/7/071201
 THE PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS |
Resolving the Bethe–Salpeter Kernel
Si-Xue Qin1* and Craig D. Roberts2,3*
1Department of Physics, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
2School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
3Institute for Nonperturbative Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
Si-Xue Qin and Craig D. Roberts 2021 Chin. Phys. Lett. 38 071201
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Abstract A novel method for constructing a kernel for the meson bound-state problem is described. It produces a closed form that is symmetry-consistent (discrete and continuous) with the gap equation defined by any admissible gluon-quark vertex, $\varGamma$. Applicable even when the diagrammatic content of $\varGamma$ is unknown, the scheme can foster new synergies between continuum and lattice approaches to strong interactions. The framework is illustrated by showing that the presence of a dressed-quark anomalous magnetic moment in $\varGamma$, an emergent feature of strong interactions, can remedy many defects of widely used meson bound-state kernels, including the mass splittings between vector and axial-vector mesons and the level ordering of pseudoscalar and vector meson radial excitations.
Received: 18 May 2021      Published: 07 June 2021
 PACS: 11.10.St (Bound and unstable states; Bethe-Salpeter equations) 11.30.Rd (Chiral symmetries) 12.38.Lg (Other nonperturbative calculations) 24.85.+p (Quarks, gluons, and QCD in nuclear reactions)
Fund: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11805024 and 11947406).
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