Metastable vacuum decay and θ dependence in gauge theory. Deformed QCD as a toy model

We study a number of different ingredients related to the θ dependence, metastable excited vacuum states and other related subjects using a simplified version of QCD, the so-called “deformed QCD”. This model is a weakly coupled gauge theory, which, however, preserves all the relevant essential eleme...

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Main Authors: Amit Bhoonah, Evan Thomas, Ariel R. Zhitnitsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-01-01
Series:Nuclear Physics B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321314003423