Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: We outline a connection between scalar quark confinement, a phenomenologically successful concept heretofore lacking fundamental justification, and QCD. Although scalar confinement does not follow from QCD, there is an interesting and close relationship between them. We develop a simple model intermediate between scalar confinement and the QCD string for illustrative purposes. Finally, we find analytically the bound state spectrum of the light degrees of freedom for a spinless, massless quark in scalar, time-component vector, and string confinement through semi-classical quantization.
Authors: Theodore J. Allen, M. G. Olsson, Siniša Veseli
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2012439859