| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 274, 2022
XVth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum Conference (ConfXV)
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| Article Number | 01002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 12 | |
| Section | 1 - Plenary Presentations | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202227401002 | |
| Published online | 22 December 2022 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202227401002
Dynamical fermions, centre vortices, and emergent phenomena
Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter (CSSM), Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
Published online: 22 December 2022
The non-trivial ground-state vacuum fields of QCD form the foundation of matter. Here we examine the centre vortices identified within the ground-state fields of lattice QCD. We aim to understand the manner in which dynamical fermions in the QCD vacuum alter the centre-vortex structure. Using modern visualisation techniques, the centre-vortex structure of pure-gauge and dynamical-fermion fields is quantified and compared. We then explore the impact this modified structure has on measures of confinement and dynamical mass generation. The string tension of the static quark potential, positivityviolation in the gluon propagator, and dynamical mass generation in the overlap quark propagator are of particular interest. The impact of dynamical fermions is significant and provides new insights into the role of centre vortices in underpinning both confinement and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in QCD.
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