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Attractive Casimir effect in an infrared modified gluon bag model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In this work, we are motivated by previous attempts to derive the vacuum contribution to the bag energy in terms of familiar Casimir energy calculations for spherical geometries. A simple infrared modified model is introduced which allows studying the effects of the analytic structure as well as the geometry in a clear manner. In this context, we show that if a class of infrared vanishing effective gluon propagators is considered, then the renormalized vacuum energy for a spherical bag is attractive, as required by the bag model to adjust hadron spectroscopy.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0507195,
  title  = {Attractive Casimir effect in an infrared modified gluon bag model},
  author = {L. E. Oxman and N. F. Svaiter and R. L. P. G. Amaral},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0507195},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages. 1 figure. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D. Revised version with improved analysis and presentation, references added