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A characterization of instanton contributions to gauge field theory is given. The dynamics of instantons with the gluon field is given in terms of 'classical' instanton contributions, i.e. on the same footing as tree amplitudes in field…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon Chalmers

We describe quenched spectroscopy in SU(2) gauge theory using smoothed gauge field configurations. We investigate the properties of quarks moving in instanton background field configurations, where the sizes and locations of the instantons…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 Thomas DeGrand , Anna Hasenfratz , Tamas G. Kovacs

The nonperturbative effects in the high-energy processes involving strongly interacting particles are studied within the instanton liquid model of the QCD vacuum (ILM) by using the Wilson integral framework. The detailed analysis of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. E. Dorokhov , I. O. Cherednikov

We introduce a new set of symmetries obeyed by tree-level gauge-theory amplitudes involving at least one gluon. The symmetry acts as a momentum-dependent shift on the color factors of the amplitude. Using the radiation vertex expansion, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Robert W. Brown , Stephen G. Naculich

We discuss the role of instantons in the spectroscopy of ordinary and exotic hadrons as well as in high energy reactions. We argue that the instanton induced flavor- and spin-dependent quark-quark and quark-gluon interactions can explain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-10-06 N. I. Kochelev

We study instanton effects in theories with compact extra dimensions. We perform an instanton calculation in a 5d theory on a circle of radius R, with gauge, scalar, and fermion fields in the bulk of the extra dimension. We show that,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Poppitz , Y. Shirman

We present all-multiplicity formulae, derived from first principles in the MHV sector and motivated by twistor string theory for general helicities, for the tree-level S-matrix of gluon scattering on self-dual radiative backgrounds. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-11 Tim Adamo , Lionel Mason , Atul Sharma

Nontrivial topological structures of non-Abelian gauge fields were discovered in the 1970's. Instanton solutions, describing vacuum tunneling through topological barriers, have fermionic zero modes which are at the origin of $^\prime$t…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-31 Edward Shuryak , Ismail Zahed

The pion form factors of the QCD energy-momentum tensor (EMT) are studied in the instanton liquid model (ILM) of the QCD vacuum. In this approach the breaking of conformal symmetry is encoded in the form of stronger-than-Poisson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-16 Wei-Yang Liu , Edward Shuryak , Christian Weiss , Ismail Zahed

We show that instanton calculations in QCD become theoretically well defined in the gluon saturation environment which suppresses large size instantons. The effective cutoff scale is determined by the inverse of the saturation scale. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Yuri V. Kovchegov , Eugene Levin

This thesis aims at providing better understanding of the perturbative expansion of gauge theories with and without supersymmetry. At tree level, the BCFW recursion relations are analyzed with respect to their validity for general off-shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-30 Alexander Ochirov

We propose a method to evaluate hadronic matrix elements of QCD gluon operators in the instanton vacuum. We construct the ground state of the interacting instanton ensemble for non-zero $\vartheta$--angle using a variational principle. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 D. I. Diakonov , M. V. Polyakov , C. Weiss

The influence of nonperturbative fields on instantons in quantum chromodynamics is studied. Nonperturbative vacuum is described in terms of nonlocal gauge invariant vacuum averages of gluon field strength.Effective action for instanton is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Nikita O. Agasian , Sergei M. Fedorov

We perform a semi-classical study of chiral symmetry breaking and of the spectrum of the Dirac operator in QCD with adjoint fermions. For this purpose we calculate matrix elements of the adjoint Dirac operator between instanton zero modes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Thomas Schaefer

We investigate the tree level multi-gluon components of the gluon light cone wavefunctions in the light cone gauge keeping the exact kinematics of the gluon emissions. We focus on the components with all helicities identical to the helicity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-24 Christian A. Cruz-Santiago

The instanton/sphaleron processes involve gauge fields with changing topology through a nonzero variation of the Chern-Simons number $\delta N_{CS}=\pm 1$. In QCD this leads to the production of $2N_f \delta N_{CS}$ units of axial charge,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-28 Edward Shuryak , Ismail Zahed

Fermion propagator of the Schwinger Model is revisited from the point of view of its infrared behavior. The values of anomalous dimensions are found in arbitrary covariant gauge and in all contributing instanton sectors. In the case of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomasz Radozycki

Single-minus tree-level $n$-gluon scattering amplitudes are reconsidered. Often presumed to vanish, they are shown here to be nonvanishing for certain "half-collinear" configurations existing in Klein space or for complexified momenta. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 Alfredo Guevara , Alexandru Lupsasca , David Skinner , Andrew Strominger , Kevin Weil

In this letter we show that the soft behaviour of photons and graviton amplitudes, after projection, can be determined to infinite order in soft expansion via ordinary on-shell gauge invariance. In particular, as one of the particle's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Zhi-Zhong Li , Hung-Hwa Lin , Shun-Qing Zhang

We calculate the spectrum of gluons sourced by the branching of an energetic quark in the presence of an inhomogeneous QCD medium, focusing on the soft radiation limit. We take into account multiple soft interactions between the partons and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-06 João Barata , Xoán Mayo López , Andrey V. Sadofyev , Carlos A. Salgado