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Are Gribov copies responsible for the observed Mass-gap and color confinement properties of Pure Yang-Mills Theory?

New solutions to the existing problems are presented by the quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of special relativity when treated together. The creation of particle/anti-particle pairs by quantum ...
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Glueball mass in non-abelian Yang Mills theory

How can the glueball mass be calculated in Yang Mills theory?
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Wilson loops and gauge invariant operators (Part 2)

These questions are sort of a continuation of this previous question. I would like to know of the proof/reference to the fact that in a pure gauge theory Wilson loops are all the possible gauge ...
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Reference for the ${\cal N}=3$ Chern-Simons Lagrangian at general $N_c$, $N_f$

I was wondering if someone could give me a reference where someone has explicitly written the Lagrangian for ${\cal N}=3$ $SU(N_c)$ Chern-Simons theory coupled to $N_f$ fundamental hypermultiplets. ...
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What's the distinctions between Yang-Mills theory and QCD?

So Yang-Mills theory is a non-abelian gauge theory, and we used a lot in QCD calculation. But what are the distinctions between Yang-Mills theory and QCD? And distinctions between supersymmetric ...
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A certain gluon scattering amplitude

I am stuck with this process of calculating the tree-level scattering amplitude of two positive helicity (+) gluons of momentum say $p_1$ and $p_2$ scattering into two gluons of negative (-) helicity ...
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Low-energy gluodynamics as a string

Does anyone know of a (most likely heuristic) derivation of the use of the string sigma model action to model the soft gluonic interactions between color charges? I'm familiar with the classic ...
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Some more questions about the BCFW reduction

This question is a continuation of this previous question of mine and I am continuing with the same notation. One claims that one can actually split this $n$-gluon amplitude such that there is just ...
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Colour decomposition of $n-$gluon tree amplitude

I have here a $SU(N_c)$ Yang-Mill's theory and let the index $i$, label the $n$-gluons, and $\{k_i, \lambda_i, a_i\}$ be its momenta, helicity and colour index and $\cal{A}_n^{tree/1-loop}(\{k_i, ...
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Derivation of the effective potential between a quark and an anti-quark

Typically in particle physics books (not in QFT books!) I have often seen this statement that the potential between a heavy quark and its anti-quark can be "empirically" represented as $V(r) = ...
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Is the axial gauge with a $\xi$ term useful in Yang-Mills theory?

i) Do people use axial gauge with a $\xi$ term? When $\xi\neq 0$, ghosts do not decouple, but maybe it's still useful? ii) Is it proved that the term $\frac 1 {2\xi}(n.A)^2$ in the Lagrangian does ...