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Wilson Loops and Confinement in QED
In [1] Kenneth G. Wilson proposed a mechanism for confinement using lattice paths what leds him to the concept of Wilson loop. It seems to me that he is using mainly a single abelian field. He says
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Why have our eyes not evolved to see "gluons"? [closed]
The photons are the propagators for QED, and we rely on photons to see the world around us.
The gluon is the propagator in QCD. Why have our eyes not evolved to see gluons (either on top of being ...
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Is quark electric charge also confined?
Since we will (maybe) never observe free quarks which has fraction charge, is it logically correct to say that the fraction (1/2,2/3 etc) electric charge is also confined. I.e. the charges that we do ...
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