Center Vortex vs. Abelian models of the QCD vacuum

Abstract

We present evidence that the center vortex model of confinement is more consistent with lattice results than other currently available models. In particular we show that Abelian field distributions predicted by monopole plasma, caloron gas or dual superconductor models cannot reproduce the area-law falloff of double winding Wilson loops in full $SU(2)$ and center vortex only gauge fields.

Comments: Presented at the 4th winter workshop on Non-Perturbative Quantum Field Theory, February 2-5, 2015, Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France