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Gluon condensate and the vacuum structure of QCD

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Phenomenological evidence and analytic approximations to the QCD ground state suggest a complex gluon condensate structure. Exclusion of elementary fermion excitations by the generation of infinite mass corrections is a consequence. In addition the existence of vacuum condensates in unbroken non-abelian gauge theories, endows SU(3) and higher order groups with a non-trivial structure in the manifold of possible vacuum solutions, which is not present in SU(2). This may be related to the existence of particle generations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9801077,
  title  = {Gluon condensate and the vacuum structure of QCD},
  author = {R. Vilela Mendes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9801077},
  year   = {2007}
}

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