Chiral symmetry restoration effects onto the meson spectrum from a Dyson-Schwinger and Bethe-Salpeter approach

TL;DR

This study investigates how chiral symmetry restoration influences the meson spectrum in QCD using Dyson-Schwinger and Bethe-Salpeter equations, revealing the role of quark propagator poles and potential symmetry emergence.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of meson spectra variations across chiral regimes with different interaction models, linking degeneracies to quark propagator pole locations.

Findings

Degenerate meson spectra occur in simplified models over large parameter ranges.

More realistic models show smaller parameter domains for degeneracy.

The mechanism involves the position of quark propagator poles relative to the integration domain.

Abstract

Light meson spectra are studied in a Dyson-Schwinger/Bethe-Salpeter approach to QCD. By varying the interaction strength of three sets of models for the quark-antiquark interaction, the transition from the chiral symmetric to the chirally broken regime in the vacuum is studied. The simplest type of these models leads to degenerate meson spectra for a large domain of the strength parameter. The more sophisticated and thus more realistic models show significantly smaller parameter domains for which degenerate meson spectra are obtained. The underlying mechanism for obtaining and then lifting degeneracies is traced back to the location of the quark propagators' poles, in particular, whether they are beyond or within the domain of integration in the Bethe-Salpeter equation. In view of this mechanism the potential relation of the obtained degeneracies to the dynamical emergence of symmetries is discussed, adding thereby another point of view on the conjectured chiral spin symmetry of QCD in the temperature domain right above the crossover.