Paramagnetic effect of light quark loops on chiral symmetry breaking

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-16

  Descotes, Sebastien ^a   Girlanda, Luca ^a   Stern, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Chiral Lagrangians; QCD; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 7444227092     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/01/041     Document Type: Article

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