Phenomenology of Strong Interactions -- Towards an Effective Theory for Low Energy QCD

Abstract

In this paper, we develop models applicable to phenomenological particle physics by using the string analogy of particles. These theories can be used to investigate the phenomenology of confinement, deconfinement, chiral condensate, QGP phase transitions, and even the evolution of the early universe. Other confining properties such as scalar glueball mass, gluon mass, glueball-meson mixing states, QCD vacuum, and color superconductivity can also be investigated in these model frameworks. We use one of the models to describe the phenomenon of color confinement among glueballs at the end of the paper. The models are built based on the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) action modified for opened strings with their endpoints on a D$p$-brane or brane-anti-brane at a tachyonic vacuum.