Dynamical Generation of Light Fermions
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چکیده
We show that composite fermions with masses much smaller than the scale of confinement arise naturally in certain models which admit dynamical breakdown of chiral symmetry. The models are such that to leading order some of the fermions remain massless but pick up small dynamical masses at subleading order.
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