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Are there short distance non-perturbative contributions to the QCD static potential?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We find that perturbation theory fails to describe the short range static potential as obtained from quenched lattice simulations, at least for source separations r > 1/(6 GeV). The difference between the non-perturbatively determined potential and perturbation theory at short distance is well parameterised by a linear term with a slope of approximately 1.2 GeV^2 that is significantly bigger than the string tension, sigma = 0.21 GeV^2

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9905387,
  title  = {Are there short distance non-perturbative contributions to the QCD static potential?},
  author = {Gunnar S. Bali},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9905387},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages Latex, elsart style with 3 epsf figures, some figures and formulas have changed due to a sign error in the original manuscript, Title changed, typos corrected, references updated