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From scalar to string confinement

Theodore J. Allen, M. G. Olsson, Sinisa Veseli

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0001227

Abstract

We outline a connection between scalar quark confinement, a phenomenologically successful concept heretofore lacking fundamental justification, and QCD. Although scalar confinement does not follow from QCD, there is an interesting and close relationship between them. We develop a simple model intermediate between scalar confinement and the QCD string for illustrative purposes. Finally, we find the bound state masses of scalar, time-component vector, and string confinement analytically through semi-classical quantization.

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