Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1999-05-27
Phys.Rept. 315 (1999) 83-94
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
17 pages, standard LaTex, to appear in Physics Reports commemorating Richard Slansky
Scientific paper
A simple formal computation, and a variation on an old thought experiment, both indicate that QCD with light quarks may confine fundamental color magnetic charges, giving an explicit as well as elegant resolution to the `global color' paradox, strengthening Vachaspati's SU(5) electric-magnetic duality, opening new lines of inquiry for monopoles in cosmology, and suggesting a class of geometrically large QCD excitations -- loops of Z(3) color magnetic flux entwined with light-quark current. The proposal may be directly testable in lattice gauge theory or supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Recent results in deeply-inelastic electron scattering, and future experiments both there and in high-energy collisions of nuclei, could give evidence on the existence of Z(3) loops. If confirmed, they would represent a consistent realization of the bold concept underlying the Slansky-Goldman-Shaw `glow' model -- phenomena besides standard meson-baryon physics manifest at long distance scales -- but without that model's isolable fractional electric charges.
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