Charge Symmetry Breaking and QCD

Gerald A. Miller; Allena K. Opper; Edward J. Stephenson

doi:10.1146/annurev.nucl.56.080805.140446

Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science

Volume 56, 2006

Review Article

Charge Symmetry Breaking and QCD

Gerald A. Miller¹, Allena K. Opper², and Edward J. Stephenson³
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Affiliations: Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195; email: [email protected] Department of Physics, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052; email: [email protected] Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, Bloomington, Indiana 47408; email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Charge symmetry breaking (CSB) in the strong interaction occurs because of the difference between the masses of the up and down quarks. The use of effective field theories allows us to follow this influence of confined quarks in hadronic and nuclear systems. We review the progress in observing and understanding CSB, with particular attention to the recent successful observations of CSB in measurements involving the production of a single neutral pion, and to the related theoretical progress.

Keyword(s): chiral symmetry, effective field theory, electromagnetism, isospin, light-quark mass difference

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