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Quark Dynamics and Constituent Masses in Heavy Quark Systems

Souchlas, Nicholas
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1248013809

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2009, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Physics.
QCD is considered as the theory for the description of strong interaction between quark and gluons. Due to the nature of the gauge field, perturbative techniques cannot be applied to study long distance physics where some of the most important phenomena, like Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking (DCSB) and quark and gluon confinement is realized. QCD's Dyson-Schwinger equations (DSE) framework and the Maris-Tandy effective kernel, containing phenomenology at large distance, have been successfully used to study light quark meson properties. Our goal here is to extend its use and study heavy quark mesons via calculated masses and electroweak decay constants. Differences in light-heavy and heavy-heavy quark systems are investigated. We explore the role of the infrared part of the effective kernel with increasing quark mass. Deviations from a constituent-like behavior for the heavy quark propagator were investigated within this framework. Some of these results might be related to Brodsky and Shrock's suggestion of a universal maximum wavelength of quarks and gluons in hadrons.
Peter Tandy, Dr. (Committee Chair)
Declan Keane, Dr. (Committee Member)
George Fai, Dr. (Committee Member)
John Portman, Dr. (Committee Member)
Anatoly Khitrin, Dr. (Committee Member)
Luthar Raichel, Dr. (Committee Member)
152 p.
Nuclear Physics; Particle Physics; Physics
Non-perturbative QCD; quarks; gluons; hadrons; Dyson-Schwinger equations; QCD phenomenology; light-heavy and heavy-heavy quark mesons

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  • Souchlas, N. (2009). Quark Dynamics and Constituent Masses in Heavy Quark Systems [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1248013809

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Souchlas, Nicholas. Quark Dynamics and Constituent Masses in Heavy Quark Systems. 2009. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1248013809.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Souchlas, Nicholas. "Quark Dynamics and Constituent Masses in Heavy Quark Systems." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1248013809

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