Eur. Phys. J. C 18, 577-582
DOI: 10.1007/s100520100518
Gluon-meson duality in the Mean Field Approximation
Ch. WetterichInstitut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 16, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany C.Wetterich@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de
(Received: 1 September 1999 / Revised version: 25 August 2000 / Published online: 8 December 2000 -© Springer-Verlag 2000)
Abstract
In a gauge-fixed language gluon-meson duality can be described
as the Higgs mechanism for "spontaneous symmetry breaking"
of color. We present a mean field computation which suggests that
this phenomenon is plausible in QCD. One obtains realistic masses
of the light mesons and baryons.
© Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag 2001
