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Non-Abelian magnetic monopoles responsible for quark confinement

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-03-19 v1 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.1102.4150,
  title  = {Non-Abelian magnetic monopoles responsible for quark confinement},
  author = {K. -I. Kondo and A. Shibata and T. Shinohara and S. Kato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.4150},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures, A contribution to the proceedings of "The many faces of QCD", Ghent (Belgium), November 1-5, 2010