Published February 1985
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Journal article
Can quarks always be confined by a linear potential
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Southeastern Massachusetts University, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02747
Description
It is demonstrated on the basis of the Dirac equation that quarks cannot be confined by a vector gluon potential of the form (r/r0)/sup a/ or [ln(r/r0)]/sup a/, a>0, if the quark-gluon interaction conserves partiy. In order to confine quarks with the parity-conserving interaction, the effective gluon potential must be a pseudovector or a scalar. These are shown in a simple Yang-Mills field with the SU(2) group
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Found. Phys.
- Journal Volume
- 15
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Series
- Found. Phys.
- Journal Page Range
- 155-192
- ISSN
- 0015-9018
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 16065428
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CONFINEMENT; DIRAC EQUATION; GAUGE INVARIANCE; P INVARIANCE; POTENTIALS; QUARK-GLUON INTERACTIONS; QUARKS; SU-2 GROUPS; YANG-MILLS THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; INTERACTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LIE GROUPS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS; WAVE EQUATIONS