General form of the color potential produced by color charges of the quark

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2013)001zbMATH Open1342.81696arXiv1201.2666MaRDI QIDQ302890FDOQ302890

Authors: Gouranga C. Nayak 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Constant electric charge $e$ satisfies the continuity equation $partia{l}_{m}u{j}^{mu}(x)=0$ where $j^{m}u(x)$ is the current density of the electron. However, the Yang-Mills color current density $j^{mua}(x)$ of the quark satisfies the equation $D_{m}u[A]j^{mua}(x)=0$ which is not a continuity equation ($partia{l}_{m}u{j}^{mua}(x)eq0$) which implies that a color charge $q^a(t)$ of the quark is not constant but it is time dependent where $a=1,2,\mathrm{...8}$ are color indices. In this paper we derive general form of color potential produced by color charges of the quark. We find that the general form of the color potential produced by the color charges of the quark at rest is given by $$ where $dr$ integration is an indefinite integration, ~~ $Q_{ab}(a{u}_0)=f^{abd}{q}^d(a{u}_0)$, ~~$r=|vecx-vecX(a{u}_0)|$, ~~$a{u}_0=t-fracrc$ is the retarded time, ~~$c$ is the speed of light, ~~$vecX(a{u}_0)$ is the position of the quark at the retarded time and the repeated color indices $b,d$(=1,2,...8) are summed. For constant color charge $q^a$ we reproduce the Coulomb-like potential $Ph{i}^a(x)=frac{q}^{a}r$ which is consistent with the Maxwell theory where constant electric charge $e$ produces the Coulomb potential $Phi(x)=fracer$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2666

zbMATH Keywords

confinementQCD

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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