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While the QCD Lagrangian as the whole is only chirally symmetric, its electric part has larger chiral-spin SU(2)_{CS} and SU(2N_F) symmetries. This allows separation of the electric and magnetic interactions in a given reference frame. Artificial truncation of the near-zero modes of the Dirac operator results in the emergence of the SU(2)_{CS} and SU(2N_F) symmetries in hadron spectrum. This implies that while the confining electric interaction is distributed among all modes of the Dirac operator, the magnetic interaction is located at least predominantly in the near-zero modes. Given this observation one could anticipate that above the pseudocritical temperature, where the near-zero modes of the Dirac operator are suppressed, QCD is SU(2)_{CS} and SU(2N_F) symmetric, which means absence of deconfinement in this regime. Solution of the N_F=2 QCD on the lattice with a chirally symmetric Dirac operator reveals that indeed in the interval Tc - 3Tc QCD is approximately SU(2)_{CS} and SU(2N_F) symmetric which implies that degrees of freedom are chirally symmetric quarks bound by the chromoelectric field into color-singlet objects without the chromomagnetic effects. This regime is referred to as a Stringy Fluid. At larger temperatures this emergent symmetry smoothly disappears and QCD approaches the Quark-Gluon Plasma regime with quasifree quarks. The Hadron Gas, the Stringy Fluid and the Quark-Gluon Plasma differ by symmetries, degrees of freedom and properties., Comment: 15 pages. Will appear in IJMPA. Discussion of confinement - deconfinement has been expanded and new figures have been added

Above a pseudocritical temperature of chiral symmetry restoration ${T}_{c}$, the energy and the pressure are very far from the quark-gluon-plasma limit (i.e., ideal gas of free quarks and gluons). At the same time, very soon above ${T}_{c}$, fluctuations of conserved charges behave as if quarks were free particles. Within the ${T}_{c}\ensuremath{-}3{T}_{c}$ interval, a chiral-spin symmetry emerges in QCD which is not consistent with free quarks and suggests that degrees of freedom are chirally symmetric quarks bound into the color-singlet objects by the chromoelectric field. Here we analyze temporal and spatial correlators in this interval and demonstrate that they indicate simultaneously the chiral-spin symmetry as well as the absence of the interquark interactions in channels constrained by a current conservation. The latter channels are responsible for both fluctuations of conserved charges and for dileptons. Assuming that an $SU(2{)}_{\text{color}}$ subgroup of $SU(3{)}_{\text{color}}$ is deconfined soon above ${T}_{c}$ but confinement persists in $SU(3{)}_{\text{color}}/SU(2{)}_{\text{color}}$ in the interval ${T}_{c}\ensuremath{-}3{T}_{c}$, we are able to reconcile all empirical facts listed above.

Recently, via calculation of spatial correlators of $J=0,1$ isovector operators using a chirally symmetric Dirac operator within $N_F=2$ QCD, it has been found that QCD at temperatures $T_c - 3 T_c$ is approximately $SU(2)_{CS}$ and $SU(4)$ symmetric. The latter symmetry suggests that the physical degrees of freedom are chirally symmetric quarks bound by the chromoelectric field into color singlet objects without chromomagnetic effects. This regime of QCD has been referred to as a Stringy Fluid. Here we calculate correlators for propagation in time direction at a temperature slightly above $T_c$ and find the same approximate symmetries. This means that the meson spectral function is chiral-spin and $SU(4)$ symmetric., 10 pages, 3 figures. Version published by PLB

Above the pseudocritical temperature T_c of chiral symmetry restoration a chiral spin symmetry (a symmetry of the color charge and of electric confinement) emerges in QCD. This implies that QCD is in a confining mode and there are no free quarks. At the same time correlators of operators constrained by a conserved current behave as if quarks were free. This explains observed fluctuations of conserved charges and the absence of the rho-like structures seen via dileptons. An independent evidence that one is in a confining mode is very welcome. Here we suggest a new tool how to distinguish free quarks from a confining mode. If we put the system into a finite box, then if the quarks are free one necessarily obtains a remarkable diffractive pattern in the propagator of a conserved current. This pattern is clearly seen in a lattice calculation in a finite box and it vanishes in the infinite volume limit as well as in the continuum. In contrast, the full QCD calculations in a finite box show the absence of the diffractive pattern implying that the quarks are confined., Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures. A new figure has been added and discussion that clarifies the main point of the paper has been expanded. Accepted by EPJA

Based on a complete set of $J = 0$ and $J=1$ spatial isovector correlation functions calculated with $N_F = 2$ domain wall fermions we identify an intermediate temperature regime of $T \sim 220 - 500$ MeV ($1.2T_c$--$2.8T_c$), where chiral symmetry is restored but the correlators are not yet compatible with a simple free quark behavior. More specifically, in the temperature range $T \sim 220 - 500$ MeV we identify a multiplet structure of spatial correlators that suggests emergent $SU(2)_{CS}$ and $SU(4)$ symmetries, which are not symmetries of the free Dirac action. The symmetry breaking effects in this temperature range are less than 5%. Our results indicate that at these temperatures the chromo-magnetic interaction is suppressed and the elementary degrees of freedom are chirally symmetric quarks bound into color-singlet objects by the chromo-electric component of the gluon field. At temperatures between 500 and 660 MeV the emergent $SU(2)_{CS}$ and $SU(4)$ symmetries disappear and one observes a smooth transition to the regime above $T \sim 1$ GeV where only chiral symmetries survive, which are finally compatible with quasi-free quarks., A new figure and discussion added. Accepted for publication in PRD

Truncating the low-lying modes of the lattice Dirac operator results in an emergence of the chiral-spin symmetry $SU(2)_{CS}$ and its flavor extension $SU(2N_F)$ in hadrons. These are symmetries of the quark - chromo-electric interaction and include chiral symmetries as subgroups. Hence the quark - chromo-magnetic interaction, which breaks both symmetries, is located at least predominantly in the near - zero modes. Using as a tool the expansion of propagators into eigenmodes of the Dirac operator we here analytically study effects of a gap in the eigenmode spectrum on baryon correlators. We find that both $U(1)_A$ and $SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R$ emerge automatically if there is a gap around zero. Emergence of larger $SU(2)_{CS}$ and $SU(4)$ symmetries requires in addition a microscopical dynamical input about the higher-lying modes and their symmetry structure., Comment: Accepted by PRD

The chirally symmetric baryon parity-doublet model can be used as an effective description of the baryon-like objects in the chirally symmetric phase of QCD. Recently it has been found that above the critical temperature higher chiralspin symmetries emerge in QCD. It is demonstrated here that the baryon parity-doublet Lagrangian is manifestly chiralspin-invariant. We construct nucleon interpolators with fixed chiralspin transformation properties that can be used in lattice studies at high T., To appear in PRD

In this talk we first overview lattice results that have led to the observation of new SU(2)_{CS} and SU(2N_F) symmetries upon artificial truncation of the near-zero modes of the Dirac operator at zero temperature and at high temperature without any truncation. These symmetries are larger than the chiral symmetry of the QCD Lagrangian and contain chiral symmetries SU(N_F)_L \times SU(N_F)_R and U(1)_A as subgroups. In addition to the standard chiral transformations the SU(2)_{CS} and SU(2N_F) transformations mix the right- and left-handed components of the quark fields. It is a symmetry of the confining chromo-electric interaction while the chromo-magnetic interaction manifestly breaks it. Emergence of these symmetries upon truncation of the near-zero modes of the Dirac operator at T=0 means that all effects of the chromo-magnetic interaction are located exclusively in the near-zero modes, while confining chromo-electric interaction is distributed among all modes. Appearance of these symmetries at high T, where the temperature suppresses the near-zero modes, has radical implications because these symmetries are incompatible with the asymptotically free deconfined quarks at increasing temperature. The elementary objects in the high-temperature phase of QCD should be quarks bound by the pure chromo-electric field that is not accompanied by the chromo-magnetic effects., 11 pages, talk presented at 6th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, 18.08 - 26.08, 2017, Crete

We study spatial isovector meson correlators in $N_f=2$ QCD with dynamical domain-wall fermions on $32^3\times 8$ lattices at temperatures $T=220-380$ MeV. We measure the correlators of spin-one ($J=1$) operators including vector, axial-vector, tensor and axial-tensor. Restoration of chiral $U(1)_A$ and $SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R$ symmetries of QCD implies degeneracies in vector--axial-vector ($SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R$) and tensor--axial-tensor ($U(1)_A$) pairs, which are indeed observed at temperatures above $T_c$. Moreover, we observe an approximate degeneracy of all $J=1$ correlators with increasing temperature. This approximate degeneracy suggests emergent $SU(2)_{CS}$ and $SU(4)$ symmeries at high temperatures, that mix left- and right-handed quarks., This revised version contains all corrections that will appear in the forthcoming erratum

It has been found very recently on the lattice that at high temperature at vanishing chemical potential QCD is increasingly SU(2)_CS and SU(2N_F) symmetric. We demonstrate that the chemical potential term in the QCD Lagrangian has precisely the same symmetry. Consequently the QCD matter beyond the chiral restoration line on the T - \mu plane is at least approximately SU(2)_CS and SU(2N_F) symmetric., Comment: 3 pages, final version to appear in EPJA

It was established that distribution of the near-zero modes of the Dirac operator is consistent with the Chiral Random Matrix Theory (CRMT) and can be considered as a consequence of spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry (SBCS) in QCD. The higher-lying modes of the Dirac operator carry information about confinement physics and are not affected by SBCS. We study distributions of the near-zero and higher-lying modes of the overlap Dirac operator within $N_F = 2$ dynamical simulations. We find that distributions of both near-zero and higher-lying modes are the same and follow the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble of Random Matrix Theory. This means that randomness, while consistent with SBCS, is not a consequence of SBCS and is related to some more general property of QCD in confinement regime., Comment: Contribution to Lattice 2017 proceedings, 18-24 June, 2017, Granada, Spain

The classical part of the QCD partition function (the integrand) has, ignoring irrelevant exact zero modes of the Dirac operator, a local SU(2N_F) \supset SU(N_F)_L \times SU(N_F)_R \times U(1)_A symmetry which is absent at the Lagrangian level. This symmetry is broken anomalously and spontaneously. Effects of spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry are contained in the near-zero modes of the Dirac operator. If physics of anomaly is also encoded in the same near-zero modes, then their truncation on the lattice should recover a hidden classical SU(2N_F) symmetry in correlators and spectra. This naturally explains observation on the lattice of a large degeneracy of hadrons, that is higher than the SU(N_F)_L \times SU(N_F)_R \times U(1)_A chiral symmetry, upon elimination by hands of the lowest-lying modes of the Dirac operator. We also discuss an implication of this symmetry for the high temperature QCD., 9 pp. Invited talk presented at (i) "Continuous advances in QCD", May 12 - May 15, 2016, University of Minnesota, USA (ii) 5th Int. Conf. on New Frontiers in Physics, 6-14 July, 2016, Crete, Greece. To be published in (ii) conference proceedings

From the parton distributions in the infinite momentum frame one finds that only about 30% of the nucleon spin is carried by spins of the valence quarks, which gave rise to the term "spin crisis". Similar results hold for the lowest mesons, as it follows from the lattice simulations. We define the spin content of a meson in the rest frame and use a complete and orthogonal $\bar q q$ chiral basis and a unitary transformation from the chiral basis to the (2S+1)LJ basis. Then, given a mixture of different allowed chiral representations in the meson wave function at a given resolution scale, one can obtain its spin content at this scale. To obtain the mixture of the chiral representations in the meson we measure in dynamical lattice simulations a ratio of couplings of interpolarors with different chiral structure. For the rho meson we obtain practically the 3S1 state with no trace of the spin crisis. Then a natural question arises: which definition does reflect the spin content of a hadron?, Comment: 7 pp, Presented at Int. School of Nuclear Physics: "From Quarks and Gluons to Hadrons and Nuclei", Erice-Sicily, 16 - 24 September, 2011

Using interpolators with different SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R transformation properties we study the chiral symmetry and spin contents of the rho- and rho'-mesons in lattice simulations with dynamical quarks. A ratio of couplings of the $\qbar\gamma^i{\tau}q$ and $\qbar\sigma^{0i}{\tau}q$ interpolators to a given meson state at different resolution scales tells one about the degree of chiral symmetry breaking in the meson wave function at these scales. Using a Gaussian gauge invariant smearing of the quark fields in the interpolators, we are able to extract the chiral content of mesons up to the infrared resolution of ~1 fm. In the ground state rho meson the chiral symmetry is strongly broken with comparable contributions of both the (0,1) + (1,0) and (1/2,1/2)_b chiral representations with the former being the leading contribution. In contrast, in the rho' meson the degree of chiral symmetry breaking is manifestly smaller and the leading representation is (1/2,1/2)_b. Using a unitary transformation from the chiral basis to the {2S +1}L_J basis, we are able to define and measure the angular momentum content of mesons in the rest frame. This definition is different from the traditional one which uses parton distributions in the infinite momentum frame. The rho meson is practically a 3S_1 state with no obvious trace of a "spin crisis". The rho' meson has a sizeable contribution of the 3D_1 wave, which implies that the rho' meson cannot be considered as a pure radial excitation of the rho meson., Comment: 10 pp

At a critical finite chemical potential and low temperature QCD undergoes the chiral restoration phase transition. The folklore tradition is that simultaneously hadrons are deconfined and there appears the quark matter. We demonstrate that it is possible to have confined but chirally symmetric hadrons at a finite chemical potential and hence beyond the chiral restoration point at a finite chemical potential and low temperature there could exist a chirally symmetric matter consisting of chirally symmetric but confined hadrons. If it does happen in QCD, then the QCD phase diagram should be reconsidered with obvious implications for heavy ion programs and astrophysics., 4 pp.; Contribution to proceedings of "Chiral 07", November 13-16, 2007, Osaka, Japan

We compare axial charges of excited nucleons, as predicted by the chiral symmetry restoration picture, with the traditional, moderately successful for the ground-state baryons SU ( 6 ) symmetry. The axial charges of excited nucleons can (and will) be measured in lattice QCD simulations, and comparison of the lattice results with the two different symmetry schemes will give an insight on the origins of the excited hadron masses as well as on interrelations of chiral symmetry and confinement.

M. Denissenya, ∗ L. Ya. Glozman, † and M. Pak ‡ Institut fur Physik, FB Theoretische Physik, Universitat Graz, Universitatsplatz 5, 8010 Graz, Austria Recently a large degeneracy of J = 1 mesons, that is larger than the SU(2)L × SU(2)R × U(1)A symmetry of the QCD Lagrangian, has been discovered upon truncation of the near-zero modes from the valence quark propagators. It has been found that this degeneracy represents the SU(4) group that includes the chiral rotations as well as the mixing of leftand right-handed quarks. This symmetry group turnes out to be a symmetry of confinement in QCD. Consequently, one expects that the same symmetry should persist upon the near-zero mode removal in other hadron sectors as well. It has been shown that indeed the J = 2 mesons follow the same symmetry pattern upon the low-lying mode elimination. Here we demonstrate the SU(4) symmetry of baryons once the near-zero modes are removed from the quark propagators. We also show a degeneracy of states belonging to different irreducible representations of SU(4). This implies a larger symmetry, that includes SU(4) as a subgroup.

In recent lattice calculations it has been discovered that mesons upon truncation of the quasizero modes of the Dirac operator obey a symmetry larger than the $SU(2{)}_{L}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}SU(2{)}_{R}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}U(1{)}_{A}$ symmetry of the QCD Lagrangian. This symmetry has been suggested to be $SU(4)\ensuremath{\supset}SU(2{)}_{L}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}SU(2{)}_{R}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}U(1{)}_{A}$ that mixes not only the u- and d-quarks of a given chirality, but also the left- and right-handed components. Here it is demonstrated that bilinear $\overline{q}q$ interpolating fields of a given spin $J\ensuremath{\ge}1$ transform into each other according to irreducible representations of $SU(4)$ or, in general, $SU(2{N}_{F})$. This fact together with the coincidence of the correlation functions establishes $SU(4)$ as a symmetry of the $J\ensuremath{\ge}1$ mesons upon quasizero mode reduction. It is shown that this symmetry is a symmetry of the confining instantaneous charge-charge interaction in QCD. Different subgroups of $SU(4)$ as well as the $SU(4)$ algebra are explored.

Recently, a new symmetry of mesons has been found upon truncation of the quasizero modes of the overlap Dirac operator in lattice simulations. Namely, the $\ensuremath{\rho}$, ${\ensuremath{\rho}}^{\ensuremath{'}}$, $\ensuremath{\omega}$, ${\ensuremath{\omega}}^{\ensuremath{'}}$, ${a}_{1}$, ${b}_{1}$, ${h}_{1}$, and possibly ${f}_{1}$ $J=1$ mesons get degenerate after removal of the quasizero modes. This emergent symmetry has been established to be $SU(4)\ensuremath{\supset}SU(2{)}_{\mathrm{L}}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}SU(2{)}_{\mathrm{R}}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}U(1{)}_{\mathrm{A}}$. It is higher than the symmetry of the QCD Lagrangian and provides not only a mixing of quarks of given chirality in the isospin space, but also the mixing of left-handed and right-handed components. Here we study, with the overlap Dirac operator, the isovector $J=2$ mesons upon the quasizero mode reduction and observe a similar degeneracy. This result further supports the $SU(4)$ symmetry in mesons of given spin $J\ensuremath{\ge}1$.

A large degeneracy of mesons of a given spin has recently been discovered upon reduction of the quasi-zero modes of the Dirac operator in a dynamical lattice simulation. Here a symmetry group that is responsible for this degeneracy is established, which is SU(4) \supset SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R \times U(1)_A \times C_i. It is argued that this symmetry group is a symmetry of the dynamical QCD string. Implications of this picture for a genesis of light hadron spectra are discussed., 4 pp, to appear in EPJA

In a dynamical lattice simulation with the overlap Dirac operator and $N_f=2$ mass degenerate quarks we study all possible $J=0$ and $J=1$ correlators upon exclusion of the low lying "quasi-zero" modes from the valence quark propagators. After subtraction of a small amount of such Dirac eigenmodes all disconnected contributions vanish and all possible point-to-point $J=0$ correlators with different quantum numbers become identical, signaling a restoration of the $SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R \times U(1)_A$. The original ground state of the $\pi$ meson does not survive this truncation, however. In contrast, in the $I=0$ and $I=1$ channels for the $J=1$ correlators the ground states have a very clean exponential decay. All possible chiral multiplets for the $J=1$ mesons become degenerate, indicating a restoration of an $SU(4)$ symmetry of the dynamical QCD-like string., Comment: 10 pages, 13 figures

It is shown that experimental meson states with spins J=0,1,2,3 in the energy range 1.9 - 2.4 GeV obtained in recent partial wave analysis of proton-antiproton annihilation at LEAR remarkably confirm all predictions of chiral symmetry restoration. Classification of excited $\bar q q$ mesons according to the representations of chiral $U(2)_L \times U(2)_R$ group is performed. There are two important predictions of chiral symmetry restoration in highly excited mesons: (i) physical states must fill out approximately degenerate parity-chiral multiplets; (ii) some of the physical states with the given $I,J^{PC}$ are members of one parity-chiral multiplet, while the other states with the same $I,J^{PC}$ are members of the other parity-chiral multiplet. For example, while some of the excited $\rho(1,1^{--})$ states are systematically degenerate with $a_1(1,1^{++})$ states forming (0,1)+(1,0) chiral multiplets, the other excited $\rho(1,1^{--})$ states are degenerate with $h_1(0,1^{+-})$ states ((1/2,1/2) chiral multiplets). Hence, one of the predictions of chiral symmetry restoration is that the combined amount of $a_1(1,1^{++})$ and $h_1(0,1^{+-})$ states must coincide with the amount of $\rho(1,1^{--})$ states in the chirally restored regime. It is shown that the same rule applies (and experimentally confirmed) to many other meson states., Comment: 14 pages, discussion and conclusion section is largely extended

Chiral symmetry restoration in high-lying hadron spectra implies that hadrons which belong to different irreducible representations of the parity-chiral group cannot mix. This explains why the $f_0(2102 \pm 13)$, which was suggested to be a glueball, and hence must belong to the scalar (0,0) representation of the chiral group, cannot mix with the neighbouring $f_0(2040 \pm 38)$, which was interpreted as a $ n\bar n$ state, and that belongs to the $(1/2,1/2)$ representation of the chiral group. If confirmed, then we have an access to a "true" glueball of QCD., 4 pages, LaTeX, final version, Eur. Phys. J. A 19 (2004) 153

We discuss the predictions of the Goldstone-boson-exchange constituent-quark model for the proton and neutron electric and magnetic form factors as well as the nucleon axial and induced pseudoscalar form factors. The results are calculated in a covariant framework using the point-form approach to relativistic quantum mechanics. The only input into the calculations is the nucleon wave function from the constituent-quark model. A remarkably consistent picture, with all aspects of the electroweak nucleon structure close to existing experimental data, is obtained.

The recently discovered pentaquark $\Theta^+$ is described within the chiral constituent quark model. Within this picture the flavor-spin interaction between valence quarks inverts the $(1s)^4$ and $(1s)^3(1p)$ levels of the four-quark subsystem and consequently the lowest-lying pentaquark is a positive parity, I=0, J=1/2 state of the flavor antidecuplet, similar to the soliton model prediction. Contrary to the soliton model, however, the quark picture predicts its spin-orbit partner with $J=3/2$. Different interpolating fields intended for lattice calculations of $\Theta^+$ are constructed, which have a maximal overlap with this baryon if it is indeed a quark excitation in the 5Q system., Comment: 9 pp

The evidence and the theoretical justification of chiral symmetry restoration in high-lying hadrons is presented., Comment: Invited talk given at Int. School on Nuclear Physics "Quarks in Hadrons and Nuclei", September 2002, Erice/Sicily/Italy; to appear in Progr. Part. Nucl. Phys., vol. 50; 10 pages

QCD string picture of highly excited hadrons very naturally explains parity doubling once the chiral symmetry is restored high in the spectrum. In particular, the spin-orbit and tensor interactions of quarks at the ends of the string, related to dynamics of the string, vanish. High in the spectrum there appears higher degree of degeneracy, namely parity doublets with different angular momentum cluster around energy of the string in the given quantum state., Comment: 7 pages, LaTeX, 2 figs. The paper has been further expanded in order to make the point and physics more clear. To appear in Phys. Lett. B

Results for the proton and neutron electric and magnetic form factors as well as the nucleon axial and induced pseudoscalar form factors are presented for the chiral constituent-quark model based on Goldstone-boson exchange dynamics. The calculations are performed in a covariant framework using the point-form approach to relativistic quantum mechanics. The direct predictions of the model yield a remarkably consistent picture of the electroweak nucleon structure.

If above a critical temperature not only the SU(N_F)_L \times SU(N_F)_R chiral symmetry of QCD but also the U(1)_A symmetry is restored, then the actual symmetry of the QCD correlation functions and observables is SU(2N_F). Such a symmetry prohibits existence of deconfined quarks and gluons. Hence QCD at high temperature is also in the confining regime and elementary objects are SU(2N_F) symmetric "hadrons" with not yet known properties., Comment: 3 pp, presented at "Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement", Wroclaw, May, 30 - June,4, 2016

Mesons constructed from the quark propagators without the lowest-lying eigenmodes of the Dirac operator reveal not only restored SU(2)_L * SU(2)_R chiral and U(1)_A symmetries, but actually a higher symmetry. All possible chiral and U(1)_A multiplets for the states of the same spin are degenerate, i.e., the energy of the observed quantum levels does not depend on the spin orientation of quarks in the system and their parities. The quark-spin independence of the energy levels implies absence of the magnetic interactions in the system. The ultrarelativistic quark-antiquark system with only the color-electric interactions can be interpreted (or defined) as a dynamical QCD string., Invited talk at Excited QCD 2014, 2-8 February,2014, Bjelasnica Mountain, Sarajevo,Bosnien

Using the chirally invariant overlap Dirac operator we remove its lowest-lying quasizero modes from the valence quark propagators and study evolution of isovector mesons with J=1. At the truncation level about 50 MeV SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R and U(1)_A symmetries get restored. However, we observe a degeneracy not only within the chiral and U(1)_A multiplets, but also a degeneracy of all possible chiral multiplets, i.e., the observed quantum levels have a symmetry larger than U(2)_L \times U(2)_R and their energy does not depend on the spin orientation of quarks and their parities. We offer a possible interpretation of these energy levels as the quantum levels of the dynamical QCD string. The structure of the radial J=1 spectrum is compatible with E =(n_r +1)\hbar\omega with \hbar\omega = 900 \pm 70 MeV., Comment: 5 pp. The title has been changed, the paper has been restructured and a few references have been added. To appear in PRD

In previous studies we have shown that hadrons, except for a pion, survive the removal of the lowest lying Dirac eigenmodes from the valence quark propagators. The low-modes are tied to the dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry and we found chiral symmetry to be restored by means of matching masses of chiral partners, like, e.g., the vector and axial vector currents. Here we investigate the influence of removing the lowest part of the Dirac spectrum on the locality of the Dirac operator. Moreover, we analyze the influence of low-mode truncation on the quark momenta and thereupon on the hadron spectrum and, finally, introduce a reweighting scheme to extend the truncation to the sea quark sector., Comment: 7pages, 4 figures. Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 29 - August 3, 2013, Mainz, Germany

It is argued that an appearance of the near parity doublets in the upper part of the light baryon spectrum is an evidence for the chiral symmetry restoration in the regime where a typical momentum of quarks is around the chiral symmetry restoration scale. At high enough baryon excitation energy the nontrivial gap solution, which signals the chiral symmetry breaking regime, disappears and the chiral symmetry should be restored. Thus one observes a phase transition in the upper part of the light baryon spectrum. The average kinetic energy of the constituent quarks in this region is just around the critical one $3T_c$., LaTeX, 6 pp. The final version of the paper to appear in Phys. Lett. B

Pion loop fluctuations of the constituent u and d quarks are shown to give only a minute contribution to the intrinsic charge radius of the neutron, under the assumption that the pion-quark coupling constant has its conventional value, with a cut-off scale of the order of 1.0 GeV. The contribution from the pion loops to the anomalous magnetic moment of the neutron represents a small ($\sim$ 12-14%) increase over of the static quark model value.

In the low-energy regime light and strange baryons should be considered as systems of constituent quarks with confining interaction and a chiral interaction that is mediated by Goldstone bosons as well as by vector and scalar mesons. The flavor-spin structure and sign of the short-range part of the spin-spin force reduces the $SU(6)_{FS}$ symmetry down to $SU(3)_F \times SU(2)_S$, induces hyperfine splittings and provides correct ordering of the lowest states with positive and negative parity. There is a cancellation of the tensor force from pseudoscalar- and vector-exchanges in baryons. The spin-orbit interactions from $\rho$-like and $\omega$-like exchanges also cancel each other in baryons while they produce a big spin-orbit force in NN system. A unified description of light and strange baryon spectra calculated in a semirelativistic framework is presented. It is demonstrated that the same short-range part of spin-spin interaction between the constituent quarks induces a strong short-range repulsion in $NN$ system when the latter is treated as $6Q$ system. Thus one can achieve a simultaneous understanding of a baryon structure and baryon-baryon interaction in the low-energy regime., Comment: 13 pages, Lecture given at 4th Petersburg Winter School on Theoretical Physics in memory of V.N. Gribov

We report results for the ground-state and excitation spectra of the light and strange baryons from a semirelativistic constituent quark model that relies on a chiral interaction derived from Goldstone-boson exchange; in addition a confinement potential of linear form is employed. The three-quark system is solved by means of the stochastic variational method. It is shown that a unified description of all light- and strange-baryon spectra can be achieved in close agreement to phenomenology.

We discuss the performance of a chiral constituent-quark model with regard to the description of light- and strange-baryon spectra. The model employs a linear confinement and an effective interaction between constituent quarks derived from Goldstone-boson exchange. Precise Faddeev and variational calculations are carried out for the three-quark systems. The model provides a simultaneous explanation of the ground-state and excitation spectra of all the light and strange baryons much improved as compared to previous attempts.

The effect of transverse gluons on the chiral symmetry patterns of excited mesons is studied in a Coulomb gauge QCD model. The linear rising static quark-antiquark potential and the transverse gluon propagator known from lattice studies are input into the model. The non-perturbative quark propagator, which enters the meson bound state equations, is derived from the Dyson--Schwinger equations and a complete set of mesons for general spin quantum number is presented. From analyzing the bound state equations for large spins it is demonstrated, that chiral and axial symmetry are restored. In this limit a complete degeneracy of all multiplets with given spin is observed. The effect of the transverse gluon interaction is shown to vanish rapidly as the spin quantum number is increased. For vanishing dynamical quark mass the expected meson degeneracies are recovered.

We report on our preliminary results on the low-lying excited nucleon spectra which we obtain through a variational basis formed with three different interpolators., Comment: Contributed to Lattice 2003(spectrum), Tsukuba

We demonstrate that the meson-exchange contribution to d(e,e′p) Δ ( E p ∼ 0.7 − 1 GeV and Δ being at rest) is small compared to the six-quark contribution. The cross-section is large enough to be measured at CEBAF. This means that through this reaction we could observe and study the quark degrees of freedom in the deuteron.

The six-quark structure of the deuteron is discussed. It is explained from the quark point of view why an old idea of the repulsive core in the NN system works successfully and why we do not see explicitly the quark degrees of freedom in the deuteron electromagnetic formfactors, etc. It is shown how one might observe the six-quark structure of the deuteron in D(e,e′p)Δ,N ∗ reactions. The “baryon-baryon” content of the deuteron six-quark wave function is analysed. All these “baryon-baryon” components can be presented as quark-exchange currents. Finally it is shown that the meson-baryon contribution would not obscure the quark effects in d(e,e′p)Δ if the final proton is very fast and Δ is at rest.

We study hadron correlators upon artificial restoration of the spontaneously broken chiral symmetry. In a dynamical lattice simulation we remove the lowest lying eigenmodes of the Dirac operator from the valence quark propagators and study evolution of the hadron masses obtained. All mesons and baryons in our study, except for a pion, survive unbreaking the chiral symmetry and their exponential decay signals become essentially better. From the analysis of the observed spectroscopic patterns we conclude that confinement still persists while the chiral symmetry is restored. All hadrons fall into different chiral multiplets. The broken U(1)_A symmetry does not get restored upon unbreaking the chiral symmetry. We also observe signals of some higher symmetry that includes chiral symmetry as a subgroup. Finally, from comparison of the \Delta - N splitting before and after unbreaking of the chiral symmetry we conclude that both the color-magnetic and the flavor-spin quark-quark interactions are of equal importance., Comment: 12 pages, 14 figures; final version

We find the spectrum and wave functions of the heavy-light mesons in $(1 + 1)$-dimensional QCD in the 't Hooft limit, both in the rest frame, using the Coulomb (axial) gauge, and on the light cone. Our emphasis is on the effects of chiral symmetry breaking on the spectrum. While dynamical equations in both cases look different, the results for the spectrum are identical. The chiral symmetry breaking is clearly seen from the gap and Bethe--Salpeter equations in the laboratory frame. At the same time, while vacuum is trivial on the light cone (no chiral condensate), the effects of the spontaneous breaking of the chiral symmetry manifest themselves in the same way, as it follows from the coincidence of the spectra obtained from the laboratory-frame Bethe--Salpeter equation on the one hand, and the light-cone 't Hooft-type equation on the other.

The quark-cluster model with coupling constants constraint by chiral symmetry is extended to include strange quarks. In this model, besides the confinement and one-gluon exchange potentials, the pseudoscalar mesons and sigma (σ) meson exchanges are included as the nonperturbative effect. Using this interaction we studied the binding energy of the deuteron, the NN scattering phase shifts and the hyperon-nucleon cross sections in the framework of the resonating group method (RGM). The results are reasonably consistent with experiments.

We discuss the possibility that a narrow peak found recently in the ( pi +, pi -) reaction at Tpi =50 MeV could be a signal from an NN-decoupled dibaryon with quantum numbers JP, T=0-, 0. We classify the possible six-quark states with the given quantum numbers in the framework of the nonrelativistic constituent quark model. The 'mass' of the lowest possible state (s5p) is calculated with and without chiral interactions.