Color Memory: A Yang-Mills Analog of Gravitational Wave Memory
Abstract
A transient color flux across null infinity in classical Yang-Mills theory is considered here. It is shown that a pair of test `quarks' initially in a color singlet generically acquire net color as a result of the flux. A nonlinear formula is derived for the relative color rotation of the quarks. For weak color flux the formula linearizes to the Fourier transform of the soft gluon theorem. Furthermore, this color memory effect is the Yang-Mills analog of the gravitational memory effect.
- Authors:
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- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States). Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature
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- Research Org.:
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1598789
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1416438
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0007870
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 119; Journal Issue: 26; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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Pate, Monica, Raclariu, Ana-Maria, and Strominger, Andrew. Color Memory: A Yang-Mills Analog of Gravitational Wave Memory. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.261602.
Pate, Monica, Raclariu, Ana-Maria, & Strominger, Andrew. Color Memory: A Yang-Mills Analog of Gravitational Wave Memory. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.261602
Pate, Monica, Raclariu, Ana-Maria, and Strominger, Andrew. Thu .
"Color Memory: A Yang-Mills Analog of Gravitational Wave Memory". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.261602. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1598789.
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title = {Color Memory: A Yang-Mills Analog of Gravitational Wave Memory},
author = {Pate, Monica and Raclariu, Ana-Maria and Strominger, Andrew},
abstractNote = {A transient color flux across null infinity in classical Yang-Mills theory is considered here. It is shown that a pair of test `quarks' initially in a color singlet generically acquire net color as a result of the flux. A nonlinear formula is derived for the relative color rotation of the quarks. For weak color flux the formula linearizes to the Fourier transform of the soft gluon theorem. Furthermore, this color memory effect is the Yang-Mills analog of the gravitational memory effect.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.261602},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 26,
volume = 119,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 28 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Thu Dec 28 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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