Non-Abelian magnetic monopole dominance for SU(3) Wilson loop average

Journal Article · Mon May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3574982· OSTI ID:21513272

Kondo, Kei-Ichi; Shinohara, Toru ^[1]; Shibata, Akihiro ^[2]; Kato, Seikou ^[3]

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1. Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522 (Japan)
2. Computing Research Center, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba 305-0801 (Japan)
3. Fukui National College of Technology, Sabae 916-8507 (Japan)

We show that the non-Abelian magnetic monopole defined in a gauge-invariant way in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory gives a dominant contribution to confinement of the fundamental quark, in sharp contrast to the SU(2) case.

• OSTI ID: 21513272
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1343, Issue 1; Conference: QCHS 9: 9. international conference on quark confinement and the hadron spectrum, Madrid (Spain), 30 Aug - 3 Sep 2010; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3574982; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
CONFINEMENT
GAUGE INVARIANCE
MAGNETIC MONOPOLES
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
QUARKS
SU-2 GROUPS
SU-3 GROUPS
WILSON LOOP
YANG-MILLS THEORY
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FERMIONS
FIELD THEORIES
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
LIE GROUPS
MATHEMATICS
MONOPOLES
POSTULATED PARTICLES
SU GROUPS
SYMMETRY GROUPS