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Confinement of quarks

Wilson, Kenneth G.·1974·Physical Review D

Abstract

A mechanism for total confinement of quarks, similar to that of Schwinger, is defined which requires the existence of Abelian or non-Abelian gauge fields. It is shown how to quantize a gauge field theory on a discrete lattice in Euclidean space-time, preserving exact gauge invariance and treating the gauge fields as angular variables (which makes a gauge-fixing term unnecessary). The lattice gauge theory has a computable strong-coupling limit; in this limit the binding mechanism applies and there are no free quarks. There is unfortunately no Lorentz (or Euclidean) invariance in the strong-coupling limit. The strong-coupling expansion involves sums over all quark paths and sums over all surfaces (on the lattice) joining quark paths. This structure is reminiscent of relativistic string models of hadrons.

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Authors
Wilson, K. G.
Venue
Physical Review D
Published
1974-10-15
Volume
10
Issue
8
Pages
2445-2459
ISSN
0556-2821 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2172949211
Cited by
4,507
References
18
FWCI
41.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
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