Adjoint ``Quarks'' and the Physics of Confinement
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
The quark-antiquark potential and the chromoelectric fields generated by ``quarks'' in the adjoint representation of SU(2) color are analyzed in the scaling region of the theory. New results with interesting implications for our understanding of the confinement mechanism are presented. In particular, the formation of color-electric flux-tubes between adjoint quarks is demonstrated in four-dimensional SU(2) color. The flux-tubes for fundamental and adjoint representation quarks are shown to have very similar cross-sections. This result could imply that the QCD vacuum is dual to a type I superconductor.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9511006,
title = {Adjoint ``Quarks'' and the Physics of Confinement},
author = {Howard D. Trottier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9511006},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages (including figures) in one uuencoded postscript file; Contribution to Lattice 95