The Color Charge Bag Model Outline Color in

The Color Charge & Bag Model Outline • Color in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) – Color Charges – Quark confinement • M. I. T. Bag Model – Assumptions – Bag Model of Quark Confinement 1

Color • Quarks have a physical property called color, it could be blue, green or red • Each color also has an anti-color • They are not really different colors, it is a property, like charge • Quarks cannot exist individually because the color force increases as they are pulled apart. 2

Color in QCD Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is theory of the strong interaction. a) The interaction is governed by massless spin 1 objects called “gluons”. b) Gluons couple only to objects that have “color”: quarks and gluons c) There are three different charges (“colors”): red, green, blue. (in QED there is only one charge (electric)). gluon exchange can change the color of a quark but not its flavor. e. g. a red u-quark can become a blue u-quark via gluon exchange. u u g grb u u e) Since gluons have color there are couplings involving gluons. 3

Color in QCD There are several interesting consequences of QCD: a) Quarks are confined in space. We can never “see” a quark the way we can an electron or proton. Explains why there is no experimental evidence for “free” quarks. b) All particles (mesons and baryons) are color singlets. This “saves” the Pauli Principle. In the quark model the ++ consists of 3 up quarks in a totally symmetric state. Need something else to make the total wave function anti-symmetric Þ color! c) Asymptotic freedom. The QCD coupling constant changes its value dramatically as function of energy. As a result quarks can appear to be “free” when probed by high energy (virtual) g’s and yet be tightly bound into mesons and baryons (low energy). d) In principle, the masses of mesons and baryons can be calculated using QCD. But in reality, very difficult to calculate (almost) anything with QCD ! 4

Color Charges • Pauli exclusion principle? – two or more identical fermions may not exist in the same quantum state – what about the u quarks in ++ ? – Pauli principle violated ( ++= (uuu) wave function is totally symmetric) (fixed up by color) – ++ = u u u It must be antisymmetric under Pauli principle! • More questions on the quark model 5

Color Charges • Another internal degree of freedom was needed “COLOR” • Postulates – quarks exist in three colors: – hadrons built from quarks have net zero color (otherwise, color would be a measurable property) • We overcome the spin-statistics problem by dropping the concept of identical quarks; now distinguished by color ++ = u. R u. G u. B 6

Color Force • QCD gave a new theory of how quarks interact with each other by means of color charge • The strong force between quarks is often called the color force • The strong force between quarks is carried by gluons – Gluons are massless particles – There are 8 gluons, all with color charge • When a quark emits or absorbs a gluon, its color changes 7

The Gluon The strong force holds quarks together to form hadrons Its carrier particles are called gluons The strong force only acts on very short distances 8

Colored Quarks and Gluons Each quark has one of the three color charges and each antiquark has one of the three anticolor charges Baryons and mesons are colorneutral just as redgreen-blue makes white light 9

Fundamental process: Electron. Positron Annihilation If one of the quarks is pulled away from its neighbors, the color field stretches between that quark and its neighbors. Then New quarkantiquark pairs are created in the field 10

Color Force • We have assigned a “hidden” color quantum # to quarks. – “hidden” because detectable particles are all “colorless” • It solves the embarrassment of fermion statistics problem for otherwise successful quark model. • Like colors repel and unlike colors attract • The color force between color-neutral hadrons (like a proton and a neutron) is negligible at large separations – The strong color force between the constituent quarks does not exactly cancel at small separations – This residual strong force is the nuclear force that binds the protons and neutrons to form nuclei 11

Quark Confinement The only quark and anti-quark combinations for color confinement is given by (Martin’s Book, Page-165): For baryons are the states with p=1, n=0 and for mesons are states with p=0, n=1. States such as qqqq and qq are forbidden by the singlet (confinement) requirement. However, the following states are allowed: What about bound states of gluons? “glueballs” There have been many experimental searches for quark bound states other than the conventional mesons and baryons. To date there is only evidence for the existence of the conventional mesons and baryons. 12

QCD & Color • Asymptotic freedom – Quarks move quasi-free inside the nucleon – Perturbation theoretical tools can be applied in this regime • Quark confinement – No single free quark has been observed in experiments – Color force increases with increasing distance • Chiral symmetry (will be discussed Later) 13

M. I. T. Bag Model • Developed in 1974 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) • It models spatial confinement only • Quarks are forced by a fixed external pressure to move only inside a given spatial region • Quarks occupy single particle orbitals • The shape of the bag is spherical, if all the quarks are in 14 ground state

M. I. T Bag Model • Inside the bag, quarks are allowed to move quasi-free. • An appropriate boundary condition at the bag surface guarantees that no quark can leave the bag • This implies that there are no quarks outside the bag 15

Bag Model of Quark Confinement In dealing with the nature of quark confinement, one visualization is that of an elastic bag which allows the quark to move freely around, as long as you don't try to pull them further apart. But if you try to pull a quark out, the bag stretches and resists. The quarks of a proton are free to move within the proton volume The energy required to produce a separation far If you try to pull one of the exceeds the pair production quarks out, the energy of a quark-antiquark required is on the order of 1 pair, so instead of pulling out Ge. V per fermi, like an isolated quark, you stretching an elastic bag. produce mesons as the produced quark-antiquark pairs combine. 16

Bag Model of Quark Confinement The models of quark confinement help in understanding why we have not seen isolated quarks. If one of the constituent quarks of a particle is given enough energy, it can create a jet of mesons as the energy imparted to the quark is used to produce quark-antiquark pairs. Experiments show that the forces containing the quarks get weaker as the quarks get closer together, so that within the confines of a baryon or hadron, they are essentially free to move about. This condition is referred to as "asymptotic freedom". 17

Bag Model of Quark Confinement Asymptotic Freedom As the quarks within a meson or baryon get closer together, the force of containment gets weaker so that it asymptotically approaches zero for close confinement. The implication is that the quarks in close confinement are completely free to move about. Part of the nature of quark confinement is that the further you try to force the quarks apart, the greater the force of containment. This is often visualized in terms of 18 the "bag model" of quark confinement.

M. I. T. Bag Model A potential function which has been successfully used to describe some quark systems is of the form: • The boundary condition generates discrete energy eigenvalues. R - radius of the Bag x 1=2. 04 Nq = # of quarks inside the bag B – bag constant that reflects the bag pressure 19

M. I. T. Bag Model • Minimizing E(R), one gets the equilibrium radius of the system Fixing the only parameter of the model B, by fitting the mass of the nucleon to 938 Me. V we have first order predictions 20