Vacuum polarization and the quark-parton puzzle

  • A. Casher*
  • , J. Kogut
  • , Leonard Susskind
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We suggest a solution to the question of why isolated quark-partons are not observed. It is argued that gauge theories can have the light-cone behavior of quark fields without quark production in deep-inelastic reactions. Our ideas are illustrated in the exact solution of quantum electrodynamics in one space and one time dimension. The theory's crucial physical property is the extreme polarizability of its vacuum. Predictions for deep inelastic final states are presented.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)792-795
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume31
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 1973

Funding

Funders
Israeli Academy of Science

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