Domain-like Structures in the QCD Vacuum, Confinement and Chiral Symmetry Breaking

Abstract

We discuss how the inclusion of singular gauge fields in the partition function for QCD can lead to a domain-like picture for the QCD vacuum by virtue of specific conditions on quantum fluctuations at the singularities. With a simplified model of hyperspherical domain regions with interiors of constant field strength we calculate the basic parameters of the QCD vacuum, the gluon condensate, topological susceptibility, string constant and quark condensate, and briefly discuss confinement of dynamical quarks and gluons.

Comments: 8 pages, LaTeX. Talk given at the Workshop on Lepton-Scattering, Hadrons and QCD, Adelaide, 26 March-6 April, 2001