The transverse profile of the chromoelectric flux tubes in SU(2) and SU(3) pure gauge theories is analyzed by a simple variational ansatz using a strict analogy with ordinary superconductivity. Our method allows to extract the penetration length and the coherence length of the flux tube.
@article{arxiv.1208.1362,
title = {Chromoelectric flux tubes and coherence length in QCD},
author = {Paolo Cea and Leonardo Cosmai and Alessandro Papa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.1362},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages, 16 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication in Physical Review D