The non-perturbative QCD potential
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
The potential between heavy quarks can be rigorously defined in a QCD effective field theories framework. I discuss the general situation when the coupling constant may not be considered small and provide an explicit expression for the potential valid up to order 1/m^2. Spin dependent and spin independent terms are expressed in terms of Wilson loops, completing an ideal journey started twenty years ago with the classical work of Eichten and Feinberg.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0009146,
title = {The non-perturbative QCD potential},
author = {Antonio Vairo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0009146},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 1 figure, espcrc2.sty. Invited talk given at QCD00, 6-13 July, Montpellier, France and at the XIII International Workshop on the Fundamental Problems of High Energy Physics and Field Theory, 21-23 June, Protvino, Russia. To be published in Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl