Vacuum structure in QCD with quark and gluon condensates

May 3, 1994
18 pages
Published in:
  • Int.J.Mod.Phys.E 5 (1996) 93-106
e-Print:
Report number:
  • IP-BBSR-94-15

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Abstract:
We consider here the vacuum structure in QCD with both quark and gluon condensates and a variational ansatz for the ground state. The method is nonperturbative using only equal time algebra for the field operators. We then find that a constrained energy minimisation of the Hamiltonian leads to a QCD vacuum with both quark and gluon condensates for αs>αc=0.62\alpha_s > \alpha_c=0.62. Pion decay constant and the charge radius of the pion seem to fix the QCD coupling constant αs\alpha_s as 1.28. The approach opens up possibilities of relating the mysterious vacuum structure with common place hadronic properties.
Note:
  • 20 Pages, 2 Figure pages, REVTEX, IP/BBSR/94-15
  • vacuum state
  • quark: condensation
  • gluon: condensation
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • Lagrangian formalism
  • energy: density
  • strong interaction: coupling constant
  • coupling constant: strong interaction
  • pi: decay constant
  • decay constant: pi
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