Microscopic structure of magnetic bions

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2011)136zbMATH Open1298.81363arXiv1105.0940MaRDI QIDQ466580FDOQ466580

Erich Poppitz, Mohamed M. Anber

Publication date: 27 October 2014

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

Abstract: Magnetic bions---stable bound states of monopoles and twisted ("Kaluza-Klein") monopoles, carrying two units of magnetic charge---have been shown to be the leading cause of confinement and mass gap in four-dimensional gauge theories with massless adjoint fermions compactified on R**{1,2} x S**1, at least at small S**1. In this paper, we study in detail the bion mechanism and the scales involved for an SU(2) gauge group, using traditional QCD instanton methods. We represent the vacuum functional as the partition function of a bion-anti-bion plasma and obtain the next-to-leading dependence of the mass gap on the S**1 size L at fixed strong-coupling scale Lambda. We find that, at small Lambda x L, the mass gap is an increasing function of L for theories with four massless adjoint Weyl fermions, a case left undetermined by the previous leading-order analysis, and comment on the approach to R**4.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.0940

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zbMATH Keywords

confinementfield theories in lower dimensionsduality in gauge field theoriessolitons monopoles and instantons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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