Tachyon condensation in a chromomagnetic background field and the groundstate of QCD
arXiv:2207.08711 · doi:10.1140/epja/s10050-023-00966-0
Abstract
I consider the chromomagnetic vacuum in SU(2). The effective Lagrangian in one loop approximation is known to have a minimum below zero which results in a spontaneously generated magnetic field. However, this minimum is not stable; the effective action has an imaginary part. Over the past decades, there were many attempts to handle this situation which all were at some point unsatisfactory. I propose an idea for a new solution by assuming that the tachyonic mode, at low temperature, acquires a condensate and, as a result, undergoes a phase transition like in the Higgs model. I consider the approximation where all gluon modes are dropped except for the tachyonic one. For this mode, we have a O(2)-model with quartic self-interaction in two dimensions. I apply the CJT (2PI) formalism in the Hartree approximation. As a result, at zero and low temperatures, a minimum of the effective action at a certain value of the condensate and of the background fields is observed and there is no imaginary part. Raising the temperature, this minimum becomes shallower and at a critical temperature, the perturbative state becomes that with lower effective potential; the symmetry is restored. The physical interpretation says that the unstable mode creates tachyons until these come into equilibrium with their repulsive self-interaction and form a condensate. The relation to the Mermin-Wagner theorem is discussed. }
arXiv comment8pages, 3 figures, several improvements
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