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No Strings Attached: Potential vs. Interaction Energy In QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In infrared-stable fixed-point field theories, the interaction energy of a test particle is proportional to the non-relativistic (heavy source) coordinate-space potential derived from the field strength produced by that source. This is no longer true in ultraviolet-stable fixed-point field theories (UVSFPFT) as they may not have a finite infrared fixed point. This leads to the possibility that UVSFPFTs may have quite conventional field strength distributions despite the unusual spatial dependence expected for the interaction energy.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9703222,
  title  = {No Strings Attached: Potential vs. Interaction Energy In QCD},
  author = {T. Goldman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9703222},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, LaTeX, no figures, uses sprocl.sty, to appear in the Proceedings of the Int'l Workshop on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum II (June 26-29, 1996, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy), ed. N. Brambilla