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Query: Confinement, quark mass functions, and spontaneous chiral symmetry
  breaking in Minkowski space   We formulate the covariant equations for quark-antiquark bound states in
Minkowski space in the framework of the Covariant Spectator Theory. The quark
propagators are dressed with the same kernel that describes the interaction
between different quarks. We show that these equations are charge-conjugation
invariant, and that in the chiral limit of vanishing bare quark mass, a
massless pseudoscalar bound state is produced in a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL)
mechanism, which is associated with the Goldstone boson of spontaneous chiral
symmetry breaking. In this introductory paper, we test the formalism by using a
simplified kernel consisting of a momentum-space delta-function with a vector
Lorentz structure, to which one adds a mixed scalar and vector confining
interaction. The scalar part of the confining interaction is not chirally
invariant by itself, but decouples from the equations in the chiral limit and
therefore allows the NJL mechanism to work. With this model we calculate the
quark mass function, and we compare our Minkowski-space results to lattice QCD
data obtained in Euclidean space. In a companion paper, we apply this formalism
to a calculation of the pion form factor.

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