Vacuum energy density of chiral QCD in the zero modes enhancement quantum model

Using the effective potential approach for composite operators we have form ulated the quantum model of the QCD vacuum. It is based on the existence an d importance of the non-perturbative q(-4)-type dynamical, topologically no ntrivial excitations of the gluon field configurations. The QCD vacuum is f ound stable since the vacuum energy density has no imaginary part. We have also proposed a method how to determine finite (but always negative) the no n-perturbative Yang-Mills (YM) vacuum energy density, It becomes dependent only on a scale at which non-perturbative effects become important. The qua rk part of the vacuum energy density depends in addition on the constant of integration of the corresponding Schwinger-Dyson equation. The value of th e above mentioned scale is determined from the bounds for the pion decay co nstant in the chiral limit by implementing physically well-motivated scale- setting scheme. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights rese rved.