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Chromo-Electric flux tubes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

The profiles of the chromo-electric field generated by static quark-antiquark, QQˉQ{\bar Q} and three-quark, QQQQQQ sources are calculated in Coulomb gauge. Using a variational ansatz for the ground state, we show that a flux tube-like structure emerges and combines to the ``Y''-shape field profile for three static quarks. The properties of the chromo-electric field are, however, not expected to be the same as those of the full action density or the Wilson line and the differences are discussed.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0403075,
  title  = {Chromo-Electric flux tubes},
  author = {Patrick O. Bowman and Adam P. Szczepaniak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0403075},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, 5 figures. Added references, 1 new figure and some clarifications

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