Confined Quarks and Analyticity
- 13 March 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 40 (11) , 674-677
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.40.674
Abstract
We argue that confinement requires singularities in parton-hadron wave functions which are necessary for the parton-model description of physical processes and the analytic structure of hadronic amplitudes. Our arguments are supported by explicit calculations in two-dimensional quantum chromodynamics. In particular, we show, using new WKB techniques, that the amplitudes for and are related by analytic continuation in their scaling regions.
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