Flux tube spectra from approximate integrability at low energies

S. Dubovsky, R. Flauger, V. Gorbenko

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    Abstract

    We provide a detailed introduction to a method we recently proposed for calculating the spectrum of excitations of effective strings such as QCD flux tubes. The method relies on the approximate integrability of the low-energy effective theory describing the flux tube excitations and is based on the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz. The approximate integrability is a consequence of the Lorentz symmetry of QCD. For excited states, the convergence of the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz technique is significantly better than that of the traditional perturbative approach. We apply the new technique to the lattice spectra for fundamental flux tubes in gluodynamics in D = 3 + 1 and D = 2 + 1, and to k-strings in gluodynamics in D = 2 + 1. We identify a massive pseudoscalar resonance on the worldsheet of the confining strings in SU(3) gluodynamics in D = 3 + 1, and massive scalar resonances on the worldsheet of k = 2.3 strings in SU(6) gluodynamics in D = 2 + 1.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Pages (from-to)399-422
    Number of pages24
    JournalJournal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics
    Volume120
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Mar 1 2015

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Physics and Astronomy

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