Journal
UNIVERSE
Volume 9, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/universe9060257
Keywords
dual-superconductor scenario of quark confinement; London limit; QCD flux tubes; Yang-Mills instantons; pair production in the chromo-electric field
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The distribution of large-size Yang-Mills instantons, which are interacting with the confining monopole background, becomes O(1/?(3)), where ? is the size of an instanton, for a certain distribution of string tension. Since such a distribution of large-size instantons is known to yield confinement, we conclude that, in the London limit of the dual-superconductor vacuum, instantons can form a confining medium, and we evaluate their contribution to the total string tension.
As known, the realistic, exponential, fall-off of the rate of production of light mesons in the chromo-electric field of a quark-antiquark string, as a function of the meson mass, can be obtained from the Schwinger-formula Gaussian fall-off within a phenomenological approach which assumes a certain distribution of the string tension. This approach gets a clear meaning in the London limit of the dual superconductor, where the logarithmic increase of the chromo-electric field towards the core of the string leads precisely to the change of the Gaussian fall-off to the exponential one, thus allowing for an identification of the phenomenological distribution of the string tension. In this paper, we demonstrate that, for this distribution of the string tension, the distribution of large-size Yang-Mills instantons, which are interacting with the confining monopole background, becomes O(1/?(3)), where ? is the size of an instanton. Since such a distribution of large-size instantons is known to yield confinement, we conclude that, in the London limit of the dual-superconductor vacuum, instantons can form a confining medium, and we evaluate their contribution to the total string tension.
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