Effective Theory of QCD

1999/05/28 by Y. M. Cho, Y.M. Cho, Cho, Y. M. +4 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-lat #hep-th #math-ph #math.MP #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9905215

4 page, no figure

arxiv created 1999/07/08 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We derive a generalized Skyrme-Faddeev action as the effective action of QCD in the low energy limit. Our result demonstrates the existence of a mass gap in QCD which triggers the confinement of color.

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