Color current induced by gluons in background field method of QCD

  • By using the background field method of QCD in a path integral approach, we derive the equation of motion for the classical chromofield and for the gluon in a system containing the gluon and the classical chromofield simul- taneously. This inhomogeneous field equation contains a current term, which is the expectation value of a composite operator including linear, square and cubic terms of the gluon field. We also derive identities which the current should obey from the gauge invariance. We calculate the current at the leading order where the current induced by the gluon is opposite in sign to that induced by the quark. This is just the feature of the non-Abelian gauge field theory which has asymptotic freedom. Physically, the induced current can be treated as the displacement current in the polarized vacuum, and its e ect is equivalent to redefining the field and the coupling constant. PACS: 12.38.-t,12.38.Aw,11.15.-q,12.38.Mh

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Author:Qun WangORCiD, Chung-Wen Kao, Gouranga C. Nayak, Horst StöckerORCiDGND, Walter GreinerGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-21948
Document Type:Preprint
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2005/11/22
Year of first Publication:2000
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2005/11/22
Tag:color current; gluon; quark
Source:Int.J.Mod.Phys.E10:483-500,2001. [hep-th/0009076]
HeBIS-PPN:185513786
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht