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Title: Interaction of Wilson loops in the confining vacuum

Journal Article ·

Nonperturbative and perturbative interaction mechanisms of Wilson loops in gluodynamics are studied within the background field formalism. The first one operates when distance between minimal surfaces of the loops is small and may be important for sea quark effects and strong decay processes. The second mechanism -- perturbative interaction in nonperturbative confining background is found to be physically dominant for all loop configurations characteristic of scattering process. It reduces to perturbative gluon exchanges at small distances, while at larger distances it corresponds to the t-channel exchange of (reggeized) glueball states. Comparison to other approaches is made and possible physical applications are discussed.

Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84ER40150
OSTI ID:
793690
Report Number(s):
JLAB-THY-02-17; DOE/ER/40150-2064; hep-ph/0204285; ITP-UU-02/26; TRN: US0201041
Resource Relation:
Other Information: No journal information given for this preprint; PBD: 1 Apr 2002
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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