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Dielectric function of the QCD vacuum

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

It is shown that the inverse of the ghost form factor in the Hamilton approach to Yang-Mills theory in Coulomb gauge can be interpreted as the color dielectric function of the QCD vacuum. Furthermore the horizon condition to the ghost form factor implies that in the infrared the QCD vacuum is a perfect color diaelectric medium and therefore a dual superconductor. The dielectric function is explicitly calculated within a previously developed variational approach, using a specific ansatz for the vacuum wave functional.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0803.0504,
  title  = {Dielectric function of the QCD vacuum},
  author = {H. Reinhardt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.0504},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure, revised version as published in Phys. Rev. Lett

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