Monopoles and hadron spectrum in quenched QCD Original Research Article

We study quenched hadron spectra with Wilson fermions in abelian gauge fields extracted by maximal abelian projection and in fields induced by monopoles on 163 × 32 and 123 × 24 lattices. The pion mass squared and the quark mass defined through the axial Ward identity satisfy the PCAC relation. Gross features of the light hadron spectra are almost similar to those in SU(3) gauge fields if normalization is done by the square root of the string tension. It is also shown that no sizable dynamical mass generation is found in the present range of κ when the monopole degree of freedom is removed from the abelian fields or from the SU(3) gauge fields.