The global SU(3)color symmetry and its physical consequences are discussed.The Nother current is actually governed by the conserved matter current of color charges if the color field generated by this charge is proper...The global SU(3)color symmetry and its physical consequences are discussed.The Nother current is actually governed by the conserved matter current of color charges if the color field generated by this charge is properly polarized.The color field strength of a charge can have a uniform part due to the nontrivial QCD vacuum field and the nonzero gluon condensate,which implies that the self-energy of a system with a net color charge is infinite and,therefore,cannot exist as a free state.This is precisely what color confinement means.Accordingly,the Cornell type potential with the feature of Casimir scaling is derived for a color singlet system composed of a static color charge and an anti-charge.The uniform color field also implies that a hadron has a minimal size and minimal energy.Furthermore,the global S U(3)color symmetry requires that the minimal irreducible color singlet systems can only be qq,qqq,gg,ggg,qqg,qqqg,qqqg,etc.,therefore a multi-quark system can only exist as a molecular configuration if there are no other binding mechanisms.展开更多
基金Supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB34030302)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NNSFC)(11935017, 11575196, 12070131001)(CRC 110 by DFG and NSFC)。
文摘The global SU(3)color symmetry and its physical consequences are discussed.The Nother current is actually governed by the conserved matter current of color charges if the color field generated by this charge is properly polarized.The color field strength of a charge can have a uniform part due to the nontrivial QCD vacuum field and the nonzero gluon condensate,which implies that the self-energy of a system with a net color charge is infinite and,therefore,cannot exist as a free state.This is precisely what color confinement means.Accordingly,the Cornell type potential with the feature of Casimir scaling is derived for a color singlet system composed of a static color charge and an anti-charge.The uniform color field also implies that a hadron has a minimal size and minimal energy.Furthermore,the global S U(3)color symmetry requires that the minimal irreducible color singlet systems can only be qq,qqq,gg,ggg,qqg,qqqg,qqqg,etc.,therefore a multi-quark system can only exist as a molecular configuration if there are no other binding mechanisms.
