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Instanton infra-red stabilization in the nonperturbative QCD vacuum
The influence of nonperturbative fields on instantons in quantum
chromodynamics is studied. Nonperturbative vacuum is described in terms of
nonlocal gauge invariant vacuum averages of gluon field strength. Effective
action for instanton is derived in bilocal approximation and it is demonstrated
that stochastic background gluon fields are responsible for infra-red
(IR)stabilization of instantons. Comparison of obtained instanton size
distribution with lattice data is made.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures. Talk given at 5th International Conference on
Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Gargnano, Brescia, Italy, 10-14
Sep 200
Instanton IR stabilization in the nonperturbative confining vacuum
The influence of nonperturbative fields on instantons in quantum
chromodynamics is studied. Nonperturbative vacuum is described in terms of
nonlocal gauge invariant vacuum averages of gluon field strength. Effective
action for instanton is derived in bilocal approximation and it is demonstrated
that stochastic background gluon fields are responsible for infra-red (IR)
stabilization of instantons. Dependence of characteristic instanton size on
gluon condensate and correlation length in nonperturbative vacuum is found. It
is shown that instanton size in QCD is of order of 0.25 fm. Comparison of
obtained instanton size distribution with lattice data is made.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor corrections, to appear in JHE
Three-body Thomas-Ehrman shifts of analog states of Ne and N
The lowest-lying states of the Borromean nucleus Ne (O+ +
) and its mirror nucleus N (N+ + ) are compared by using
the hyperspheric adiabatic expansion. Three-body resonances are computed by use
of the complex scaling method. The measured size of O and the low-lying
resonances of F (O+) are first used as constraints to
determine both central and spin-dependent two-body interactions. The
interaction obtained reproduces relatively accurately both experimental
three-body spectra. The Thomas-Ehrman shifts, involving excitation energy
differences, are computed and found to be less than 3% of the total Coulomb
energy shift for all states.Comment: 9 pages, 3 postscript figures, revtex style. To be published in Phys.
Rev.
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