Color confinement from fluctuating topology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-09-02 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
QCD possesses a compact gauge group, and this implies a non-trivial topological structure of the vacuum. In this contribution to the Gribov-85 Memorial volume, we first discuss the origin of Gribov copies and their interpretation in terms of fluctuating topology in the QCD vacuum. We then describe the recent work with E. Levin that links the confinement of gluons and color screening to the fluctuating topology, and discuss implications for spin physics, high energy scattering, and the physics of quark-gluon plasma.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1509.00465,
title = {Color confinement from fluctuating topology},
author = {Dmitri E. Kharzeev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.00465},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
14 pages, 3 figures; contribution to the Gribov-85 Memorial volume