Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in QCD: A finite-size scaling study on the lattice

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Giusti, Leonardo ^a   Necco, Silvia ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chiral lagrangians; Lattice gauge field theories; Lattice QCD; Lattice quantum field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247876077     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/04/090     Document Type: Article

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