Casimir effect in Yang-Mills theories

Abstract

We study both massless scalar and Yang-Mills field theories in the deep infrared in presence of a simple boundary. We can show, with the help of the recent scenario emerging from studies on the propagators, that the presence of a mass gap makes the Casimir contribution exponentially small as should be expected. We obtain our result from the solution of the Dyson-Schwinger set of equations obtained in form of partial differential equations. Our results agree fairly well with recent lattice computations.