Interfering QCD/QED Vacuum Polarization
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
Vacuum polarization mediated by quark loops is susceptible to external electromagnetic fields as well as to the QCD vacuum structure. Employing the stochastic vacuum model, we calculate the modification of the one-loop Euler-Heisenberg effective action due to stochastic color fields with the Fock-Schwinger technique. Our results indicate nonperturbative light quark contributions of the same order of magnitude as the usual QED terms. Various theoretical and experimental implications are discussed in this progress report.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9811372,
title = {Interfering QCD/QED Vacuum Polarization},
author = {H. -Th. Elze and B. Müller and J. Rafelski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9811372},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
16 pages; LaTeX, uses sprocl.sty - Invited talk presented by HTE at the workshop ``Collective Excitations in Fermi and Bose Systems'', 14 - 17 September 1998, Serra Negra (Sao Paulo, Brazil); proceedings to be published