1998/07/15 by H. Fujii, Fujii, H., D. Kharzeev +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9807383
Talk at the 3rd "Continuous Advances in QCD" Workshop dedicated to the memory of V.N. Gribov; Minneapolis, April 16-19, 1998. 12 pages, 2 figures included
arxiv created 1998/07/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We study the scattering of small color dipoles (e.g., heavy quarkonium states) at low energies. We find that even though the couplings of color dipoles to the gluon field can be described in perturbation theory, at large distances the interaction becomes totally non--perturbative. The structure of the scattering amplitude, however, is fixed by the (broken) chiral and scale symmetries of QCD; the leading long--distance contribution arises from the correlated two--pion exchange. We use the spectral representation technique to evaluate both perturbative and non-perturbative contributions to the scattering amplitude. Our main result is the sum rule which relates the overall strength of the non--perturbative interaction between color dipoles to the energy density of QCD vacuum.