Color Ferromagnetic Vacuum States in {QCD} and Two Loop Energy Densities Bounds on {MIT} Bag Constant in Relation to {QCD} Λ\Lambda

Dec, 1979
20 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 169 (1980) 309-328
  • Published: 1980
Report number:
  • NBI-HE-79-43

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We obtain two-loop energy densities of color ferromagnetic states, which are identified with the QCD ground state, using the β-function calculated to the two-loop approximation and the exact formula for the energy density of such a state. This is used to derive bounds on the MIT bag constant correcting our previous bound in the one-loop approximation. For a constant field color ferromagnetic ansatz state we obtain the bound on the QCD scale parameter Λ P ⩽0.88 GeV when B 1 4 =0.145 GeV . The correction by going from one loop to two loops is only of the order of 20%. Correcting for instanton effects we obtain Λ P ⩽0.46 GeV. Our ϑ 3 vacuum ansatz with two-loop and instanton corrections gives Λ P ⩽0.16 GeV. We stress that the ”perturbative vacuum“, which is identified with the inside bag state, is a somewhat ill-defined concept due to a path dependence in the integral giving the energy density.
  • QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS: VACUUM STATE
  • QUARK: COLOR
  • MODEL: FERROMAGNET
  • ENERGY: DENSITY
  • MODEL: BAG
  • PERTURBATION THEORY: HIGHER-ORDER
  • SCALING
  • EFFECT: INSTANTON
  • FIELD EQUATIONS: INSTANTON
  • NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS