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String Breaking in Non-Abelian Gauge Theories with Fundamental Matter Fields

O. Philipsen, H. Wittig

hep-latarXiv:hep-lat/9807020

Abstract

We present clear numerical evidence for string breaking in three-dimensional SU(2) gauge theory with fundamental bosonic matter through a mixing analysis between Wilson loops and meson operators representing bound states of a static source and a dynamical scalar. The breaking scale is calculated in the continuum limit. In units of the lightest glueball we find r b mG≈13.6. The implications of our results for QCD are discussed.

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