https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2017-12211-0
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Influence of broken flavor and C and P symmetry on the quark propagator
Institute of Physics, NAWI Graz, University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 5, A-8010, Graz, Austria
* e-mail: walid.mian@uni-graz.at
Received:
12
December
2016
Accepted:
22
January
2017
Published online:
10
February
2017
Embedding QCD into the standard model breaks various symmetries of QCD explicitly, especially C and P . While these effects are usually perturbatively small, they can be amplified in extreme environments like merging neutron stars or by the interplay with new physics. To correctly treat these cases requires fully backcoupled calculations. To pave the way for later investigations of hadronic physics, we study the QCD quark propagator coupled to an explicit breaking. This substantially increases the tensor structure even for this simplest correlation function. To cope with the symmetry structure, and covering all possible quark masses, from the top quark mass to the chiral limit, we employ Dyson-Schwinger equations. While at weak breaking the qualitative effects have similar trends as in perturbation theory, even moderately strong breakings lead to qualitatively different effects, non-linearly amplified by the strong interactions.
© The Author(s), 2017
