Vortices on the worldsheet of the QCD string

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.07.001MaRDI QIDQ876167zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors H. Meyer

Publication date 16 April 2007

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0506034

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: We investigate the properties of the QCD string in the Euclidean SU(N) pure gauge theory when the space-time dimensions transverse to it are periodic. From the point of view of an effective string theory, the string tension $sigma$ and the low-energy constants $c_k$ of the theory are arbitrary functions of the sizes of the transverse dimensions L_p. Since the gauge theory is linearly confining in D=2, 3 and 4 dimensions, we propose an effective string action for the flux-tube energy levels at any choice of $L_p$, given $sigma(L_p)$ and $c_k(L_p)$. The Luscher term only depends on the number of massless bosonic degrees of freedom and the effective theory can account for its evolution as a function of $L_p$. As the size of one transverse dimension is varied, we predict a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition of the worldsheet field theory at $sigma(L_p)L_p^{2}simeq1/8pi$ driven by vortices, after which the periodic component of the worldsheet displacement vector develops a mass gap and the effective central charge drops by one unit. The universal properties of the transition are emphasised.

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