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Scenario for quark confinement from infrared safe Yang-Mills dynamics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-11-06 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We revisit the non-Abelian dipole problem in the context of a simple semiclassical approach that incorporates some essential features of the infrared sector of Yang-Mills theories in the Landau gauge, in particular, the fact that both the running coupling and the gluon propagator remain finite at infrared scales and that the latter shows positivity violations that reflects the presence of massless modes. We obtain a simple flux tube solution in a controlled approximation scheme, which we compare to the results of lattice simulations.

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@article{arxiv.2405.20532,
  title  = {Scenario for quark confinement from infrared safe Yang-Mills dynamics},
  author = {Marcela Peláez and Urko Reinosa and Julien Serreau and Matthieu Tissier and Nicolás Wschebor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.20532},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

9 pages; 4 figures. Published version (PRD), minor corrections

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