Non-perturbative approach to the long-distance behavior of Yang-Mills theory and the problem of quark confinement in QCD

Conference · Tue Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5026727

Baker, M

It is shown that the zero field static color dielectric constant epsilon(q vector) vanishes like q vector/sup 2/ as q vector/sup 2/ approaches zero. This is a consequence of self-consistency in the presence of antiscreening imposed by the Schwinger-Dyson equation and Slavnov-Taylor identities for epsilon. This color dielectric constant when inserted into Maxwell's equations, yields an infinite long distance self-energy for a single colored source, and gives rise to an energy for two colored sources of opposite charge, which increases linearly with their distance of separation.

• Research Organization: Washington Univ., Seattle (USA). Dept. of Physics
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76ER01388
• OSTI ID: 5026727
• Report Number(s): RLO-01388-871; CONF-8106191-1; ON: DE82020192
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
COLOR
COMPOSITE MODELS
CONFINEMENT
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
DOCUMENT TYPES
ELECTRODYNAMICS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
EQUATIONS
FIELD THEORIES
GLUONS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MAXWELL EQUATIONS
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
ORGANOLEPTIC PROPERTIES
PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
PARTICLE MODELS
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
POSTULATED PARTICLES
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
QUARK MODEL
QUARKS
REVIEWS
YANG-MILLS THEORY