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Non-Abelian magnetic monopole dominance for SU(3) Wilson loop average

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-03-17 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We show that the non-Abelian magnetic monopole defined in a gauge-invariant way in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory gives a dominant contribution to confinement of the fundamental quark, in sharp contrast to the SU(2) case.

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@article{arxiv.1012.0648,
  title  = {Non-Abelian magnetic monopole dominance for SU(3) Wilson loop average},
  author = {Kei-Ichi Kondo and Akihiro Shibata and Toru Shinohara and Seikou Kato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.0648},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

3 pages; Contribution to the proceedings of `Quark Confinement And The Hadron Spectrum IX', Madrid, Spain, 30 Aug - 3 Sep 2010; Figure is modified

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