Evidence for Flux Tubes From Cooled {QCD} Configurations

Sep, 1989
4 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 236 (1990) 199-202
  • Published: 1990
Report number:
  • IFUP-TH-38/89

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We analyze field configurations between a static qq̄ in SU(2) lattice gauge theory using a cooling technique, which reduces quantum fluctuations while preserving the string tension and the topological charge. We find clear evidence of chromoelectric flux tube configurations, of transverse size which scales properly and in physical units is of the order of about 0.4 fm.
  • gauge field theory: SU(2)
  • lattice field theory
  • flux tube
  • quark antiquark
  • scaling
  • Wilson loop
  • Polyakov loop
  • numerical calculations: Monte Carlo