Year: 2000
Type: preprint
Abstract: Merons, conjectured as a semiclassical mechanism for color confinement in QCD, are topological charge-1/2, singular solutions to the classical Yang-Mills equations of motion. I will discuss how lattice techniques can extend the study of merons to nonsingular stationary solutions without destroying properties believed to be essential for confinement, and how zero modes can be used to identify these gauge field configurations in stochastic evaluations of the lattice QCD path integral.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Author: Steele, James V.
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1646845934