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Monopole Condensation and Dimensional Transmutation in SU(2) QCD

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v4

Abstract

We resolve the controversy on the stability of the monopole condensation in the one-loop effective action of SU(2) QCD by calculating the imaginary part of the effective action with two different methods at one-loop order. Our result confirms that the effective action for the magnetic background has no imaginary part but the one for the electric background has a negative imaginary part. This assures that the monopole condensation is indeed stable, but the electric background becomes unstable due to the pair-annihilation of gluons.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0209208,
  title  = {Monopole Condensation and Dimensional Transmutation in SU(2) QCD},
  author = {Y. M. Cho and M. L. Walker and D. G. Pak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0209208},
  year   = {2015}
}

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13 pages, 2 figures

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