Four-quark scatterings in QCD I

Abstract:

We investigate dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and the emergence of mesonic bound states from the infrared dynamics of four-quark scatterings. Both phenomena originate from the resonant scalar-pseudoscalar channel of the four-quark scatterings, and we compute the functional renormalisation group (fRG) flows of the Fierz-complete four-quark interaction of up and down quarks with its $t$ channel momentum dependence. This is done in the isospin symmetric case, also including the flow of the quark two-point function. This system can be understood as the fRG analogues of the complete Bethe-Salpeter equations and quark gap equation. The pole mass of the pion is determined from both direct calculations of the four-quark flows in the Minkowski regime of momenta and the analytic continuation based on results in the Euclidean regime, which are consistent with each other.

J. M. Pawlowski, W.-J. Fu, C. Huang, Y.-Y. Tan, “Four-quark scatterings in QCD I”, SciPost Phys. 14, 069 (2023).

https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.14.4.069

Related to Project A02