Chiral Symmetry in Physics
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 21946
Special Issue Editor
Interests: particle physics, especially hadron physics and QCD
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Dear Colleagues,
Symmetries have always been inspiring intellectually and aesthetically. In particular, importance of chiral symmetry has been overwhelming in modern physics - both as a guiding principle and as a practical tool for extracting the essentials of complicated emergent phenomena in several areas of physics.
Its breaking and its restoration, as well as its relation with axial UA(1) symmetry of QCD, provide many unifying themes of nuclear and particle physics, both in vacuum and in media with nonvanishing temperature and/or density.
The phenomenology of hadrons, the observable bound states of confined QCD fields, is dominated by approximate chiral symmetry and by its large dynamical breaking, which is responsible for almost all visible mass in the Universe.
This Special Issue thus invites especially contributions studying chiral symmetry and its dynamical breaking consistently related to anomalous UA(1) breaking and to confinement, another crucial feature of QCD.
Nevertheless, it remains open also to contributions from other pertinent areas, from condensed matter to physics beyond Standard Model to biophysics to quantum computers, whereby chiral symmetry exhibits the unity of physics.
Prof. Dr. Dubravko KlabučarGuest Editor
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Keywords
- symmetry breaking: spontaneous, dynamical and explicit
- Goldstone modes
- nonperturbative dynamical mass
- quark-antiquark condensate
- nonperturbative QCD
- chiral phase transition
- chiral symmetry restoration
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