Effect of Virtual Pairs on the Inter-quark Potential
High Energy Physics - Theory
2013-09-11 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We use the variational method, in a reformulated Hamiltonian formalism of QCD, to derive the wave equation for a heavy quark-antiquark system using a trial state that contains a component with a virtual light quark pair. We examine the quark-antiquark potential in the non-relativistic limit using an approximate trial ground-state wave function. We find that the potential exhibits a confining character due to the inclusion of the virtual pair component in the trial state.
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@article{arxiv.1309.2582,
title = {Effect of Virtual Pairs on the Inter-quark Potential},
author = {Alexander Chigodaev and Jurij W. Darewych},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.2582},
year = {2013}
}
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16 pages, 6 sections, 3 figures, 14 references