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We investigate the interplay between the thermodynamic (Gibbs) entropy of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and the quantum entanglement entropy characteristic of confined hadronic states across the quark-hadron phase transition. In the deconfined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-20 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Krishna Rajagopal

Gravitational form factors (GFFs) of hadrons encode essential information about the internal distributions of mass, spin, pressure, and shear among their quark and gluon constituents. We compute the quark and gluon GFFs of the proton using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-10 Sreeraj Nair , Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

Color confinement is a fundamental phenomenon in quantum chromodynamics. In this work, the mechanisms underlying color confinement are investigated in detail, with a particular focus on the role of non-perturbative phenomena such as center…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-12-17 Zeinab Dehghan , Manfried Faber

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is generally assumed to be the fundamental theory underlying nuclear physics. In recent years there is progress towards investigating the nucleon structure from first principles of QCD. Although this structure…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-20 W. Bietenholz , N. Cundy , M. Gockeler , R. Horsley , H. Perlt , D. Pleiter , P. E. L. Rakow , G. Schierholz , A. Schiller , T. Streuer , J. M. Zanotti

We suggest a tetracritical fixed point to naturally occur in strongly interacting theories. As a fundamental example we analyze the temperature--quark chemical potential phase diagram of QCD with fermions in the adjoint representation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Francesco Sannino , Kimmo Tuominen

Quarkonia are the central objects to explore the non-perturbative nature of non-abelian gauge theories. We describe the confinement-deconfinement phases for heavy quarkonia in a hot QCD medium and thereby the statistical nature of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-22 Stefano Bellucci , Vinod Chandra , Bhupendra Nath Tiwari

The quark-antiquark potential and the chromoelectric fields generated by ``quarks'' in the adjoint representation of SU(2) color are analyzed in the scaling region of the theory. New results with interesting implications for our…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 Howard D. Trottier

In a functional approach to QCD the infrared behaviour of Landau gauge Green functions is investigated. Positivity violation for, and thus confinement of, gluons is demonstrated, and the analytic structure of the gluon propagator is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-25 Reinhard Alkofer , Christian S. Fischer , Markus Q. Huber , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Kai Schwenzer

Matter described by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions, may undergo phase transitions when its temperature and the chemical potentials are varied. QCD at finite temperature is studied in the laboratory by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-24 Sourendu Gupta , Xiaofeng Luo , Bedangadas Mohanty , Hans Georg Ritter , Nu Xu

Numerical results for the (rest-frame) $Q\bar{Q}$ potential in light-front quantized $QCD_{2+1}$ on a $\perp$ lattice are presented. Both in the longitudinal as well as the $\perp$ spatial directions one obtains linear confinement. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Burkardt

We study in this Letter the origin of the confinement in QCD by analyzing the colour charge of physics states. We derive the colour charge operator in QCD and compare it with the electromagnetic charge operator in QED. It shows that the two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-23 Fei Gao , Chong-yao Chen , Yu-xin Liu

In the physical vacuum of QCD, the energy density of light-quark fields strongly coupled to slowly varying gluon fields can be negative, and so a condensate of pairs of quarks and antiquarks of nearly opposite momenta forms which breaks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kevin Cahill

The CLAS Collaboration recently reported measured ratios of pion and kaon electroproduction cross sections from a proton target and extracted the ratios for light and strange quark--antiquark pairs, ${u\bar{u}}/ {d\bar{d}}$ and ${s\bar{s}}/…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 C. S. An , B. Saghai

The interquark potential is constructed by making use of the new analytic running coupling in QCD. This running coupling arises under ``analytization'' of the renormalization group equation. The rising behavior of the interquark potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Nesterenko

I present the state of our understanding of the QCD dynamics at play in the parton saturation regime of nuclear wave functions. I explain what are the biggest open questions in the field, their intrinsic interest, but also why is it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Cyrille Marquet

We study nonperturbative features of QCD using the dual Ginzburg-Landau (DGL) theory, where the color confinement is realized through the dual Higgs mechanism brought by QCD-monopole condensation. The linear confinement potential appears in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-21 Hideo Suganuma , Shoichi Sasaki , Hiroshi Toki , Hiroko Ichie

It is generally believed that quarks being confined inside nucleons should make their presence felt explictly in nuclei only at higher energies. However it is shown here that the hole in the centre of $ ^{3}H $, $ ^{3}He $ and $ ^{4}He $,…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Afsar Abbas

Despite quantum chromodynamics (QCD) being established as the theory of the strong interaction and its many successes since then, significant challenges in our understanding of hadron physics remain. The lack of a full understanding for how…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-02-09 Andrew D. Hanlon

Propagation of the heavy quark in the field of a static antiquark source is studied in the framework of effective Dirac equation. The model of QCD vacuum is described by bilocal gluonic correlators. In the heavy quark limit the effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Yu. S. Kalashnikova , A. V. Nefediev

The high parton density regime of the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), where the physics of parton saturation is expected to be dominant, is briefly discussed. Some phenomenological aspects of saturation are described, mainly focusing on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-25 V. P. Goncalves , M. V. T. Machado