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Confinement from spontaneous breaking of scale symmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We show that one can obtain naturally the confinement of static charges from the spontaneous symmetry breaking of scale invariance in a gauge theory. At the classical level a confining force is obtained and at the quantum level, using a gauge invariant but path-dependent variables formalism, the Cornell confining potential is explicitly obtained. Our procedure answers completely to the requirements by 't Hooft for ''perturbative confinement''.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0607113,
  title  = {Confinement from spontaneous breaking of scale symmetry},
  author = {Patricio Gaete and Eduardo Guendelman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0607113},
  year   = {2008}
}

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6 pages