Where is the string limit in QCD?

DOI10.1016/S0920-5632(99)85147-0zbMATH Open1051.81666arXivhep-lat/9809098OpenAlexW2058744446MaRDI QIDQ5961330FDOQ5961330

J. Kuti, Keisuke J. Juge, Colin Morningstar

Publication date: 24 April 2002

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

Abstract: The energies of glue in the presence of a static quark-antiquark pair are calculated for separations r ranging from 0.1 fm to 4 fm and for various quark-antiquark orientations on the lattice. Our simulations use an improved gauge-field action on anisotropic space-time lattices. Discretization errors and finite volume effects are studied. We find that the spectrum does not exhibit the expected onset of the universal pi/r Goldstone excitations of the effective QCD string, even for r as large as 4 fm. Our results cast serious doubts on the validity of treating glue in terms of a fluctuating string for r below 2 fm. Retardation effects in the Upsilon system are also studied by comparing level splittings from the Born-Oppenheimer approximation with those directly obtained in simulations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9809098

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zbMATH Keywords

anisotropic space-time latticesimproved gauge-field actionstatic quark-antiquark pair

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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