Vacuum Polarization at Long Distances and the Heavy-Quark-Antiquark Potential
- 13 November 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 41 (20), 1344-1348
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.41.1344
Abstract
Vacuum polarization at long distances for confined heavy-quark-antiquark () pairs is considered. The vacuum-polarization-corrected static potential is shown to have a radial dependence which should allow interpolation between charmonium, upsilon states, and other heavy systems. It is argued that the static, confining potential cannot grow faster than a linear potential at large distances, within the framework of this analysis.
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