Coulomb energy and gluon distribution in the presence of static sources
Abstract
We compute the energy of the ground state and a low lying excitation of the gluonic field in the presence of static quark -anti-quark () sources. We show that for separation between the sources less then a few fm the gluonic ground state of the static system can be well described in terms of a mean field wave functional with the excited states corresponding to a single quasi-particle excitation of the gluon field. We also discuss the role of many particle excitations relevant for large separation between sources.
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