Abelianization of QCD in the maximally Abelian gauge and the Nambu-'t Hooft picture for color confinement

DOI10.1016/S0920-5632(03)01869-3zbMATH Open1097.81649arXivhep-lat/0407012OpenAlexW3105378581MaRDI QIDQ1409448FDOQ1409448

Hiroko Ichie, Hideo Suganuma

Publication date: 13 October 2003

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B. Proceedings Supplements (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the Nambu-'t Hooft picture for color confinement in terms of the abelianization of QCD and monopole condensation in the maximally abelian (MA) gauge. In the MA gauge in the Euclidean metric, the off-diagonal gluon amplitude is strongly suppressed, and then the off-diagonal gluon phase shows strong randomness, which leads to rapid reduction of the off-diagonal gluon correlation. In SU(2) and SU(3) lattice QCD in the MA gauge with the abelian Landau gauge, the Euclidean gluon propagator indicates a large effective mass of the off-diagonal gluon as $M_{moff}simeq1mGeV$ in the intermediate distance as $0.2mfmlerle0.8mfm$. Due to the infrared inactiveness of off-diagonal gluons, infrared QCD is well abelianized like nonabelian Higgs theories in the MA gauge. We investigate the inter-monopole potential and the dual gluon field $B_{m}u$ in the MA gauge, and find longitudinal magnetic screening with $m_{B}simeq$ 0.5 GeV in the infrared region, which indicates the dual Higgs mechanism by monopole condensation. We define the ``gluonic Higgs scalar field providing the MA projection, and find the correspondence between its hedgehog singularity and the monopole location in lattice QCD.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0407012

zbMATH Keywords

lattice gauge theorygluon effective massinter-monopole potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Cites Work

• Monopoles and gluon fields in QCD in the maximally abelian gauge.

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• Pure gauge flux tubes and their widths at finite temperature
• Study of the properties of the Gribov region inSU(N) Euclidean Yang–Mills theories in the maximal Abelian gauge
• Towards Abelian-like formulation of the dual gluodynamics
• The spectrum of multi-flavor \(\text{QCD}_2\) and the non-abelian Schwinger equation
• Monopoles and gluon fields in QCD in the maximally abelian gauge.

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