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Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a non-perturbative phenomenon, and, thanks to massive QCD simulations on the lattice, we have at present a good understanding of the vacuum realization of the non-abelian chiral symmetry as a function of the physical temperature. As far as the UA(1) anomaly is concerned, and especially in the high temperature phase, the current situation is however far from satisfactory. The first part of this article is devoted to reviewing the present status of lattice calculations, in the high temperature phase of QCD, of quantities directly related to the UA(1) axial anomaly. In the second part, some recently suggested interesting physical implications of the UA(1) anomaly in systems where the non-abelian axial symmetry is fulfilled in the vacuum are analyzed. More precisely it is argued that, if the UA(1) symmetry remains effectively broken, the topological properties of the theory can be the basis of a mechanism, other than Goldstone\u2019s theorem, to generate a rich spectrum of massless bosons at the chiral limit.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym13020209","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,28]],"date-time":"2021-01-28T05:23:05Z","timestamp":1611811385000},"page":"209","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Axial UA(1) Anomaly: A New Mechanism to Generate Massless Bosons"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Vicente","family":"Azcoiti","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de F\u00edsica Te\u00f3rica, Facultad de Ciencias, and Centro de Astropart\u00edculas y F\u00edsica de Altas Energ\u00edas (CAPA), Universidad de Zaragoza, Pedro Cerbuna 9, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Gattringer, C., and Lang, C.B. 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