QCD vacuum structure in strong magnetic fields
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We study the response of the QCD vacuum to strong magnetic fields, using a potential model for the quark-antiquark interaction. We find that production of spin-polarized u-ubar pairs is energetically favorable for fields B > B_crit \sim 10 GeV^2. We contrast the resulting u-ubar condensate with the quark condensate which is present at zero magnetic field, and we estimate the corresponding magnetization as a function of B.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0204120,
title = {QCD vacuum structure in strong magnetic fields},
author = {Daniel Kabat and Kimyeong Lee and Erick Weinberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0204120},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
16 pages, LaTeX, 3 eps figures. v2: references added. v3: fixed typo