Physics Letters B (May 2016)

Model of the N-quark potential in SU(N) gauge theory using gauge-string duality

  • Oleg Andreev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.02.070
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 756, no. C
pp. 6 – 9

Abstract

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We use gauge-string duality to model the N-quark potential in pure Yang–Mills theories. For SU(3), the result agrees remarkably well with lattice simulations. The model smoothly interpolates between almost the Δ-law at short distances and the Y-law at long distances.