Confinement and Strings in MQCD

Details Confinement and Strings in MQCD Confinement and Strings in MQCD

1997-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9707244v1

Nucl.Phys. B513 (1998) 87-118

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

39 pages, 17 figures, uses harvmac

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00651-2

We study aspects of confinement in the M theory fivebrane version of QCD (MQCD). We show heavy quarks are confined in hadrons (which take the form of membrane-fivebrane bound states) for N=1 and softly broken N=2 SU(Nc) MQCD. We explore and clarify the transition from the exotic physics of the latter to the standard physics of the former. In particular, the many strings and quark-antiquark mesons found in N=2 field theory by Douglas and Shenker are reproduced. It is seen that in the N=1 limit all but one such meson disappears while all of the strings survive. The strings of softly broken N=2, N=1, and even non-supersymmetric SU(Nc) MQCD have a common ratio for their tensions as a function of the amount of flux they carry. We also comment on the almost BPS properties of the Douglas-Shenker strings and discuss the brane picture for monopole confinement on N=2 QCD Higgs branches.

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