The $Q\bar{Q}$ Potential in the Color-Dielectric Formulation of the Transverse Lattice

Abstract

The $Q\bar{Q}$ potential is calculated in the Color-Dielectric Formulation of Transverse Lattice QCD. In such a formulation an effective potential is used to enforce the $SU(N_c)$ symmetry of the link fields. This effective potential is truncated at fourth order. Surprisingly, there is striking rotational invariance in the ground state $Q\bar{Q}$ potential as well as in the first hybrid mode.

Comments: Talk given at ``Quark Confinement and the hadron spectrum III'', Newport News, VA, June 1998; 4 pages, 3 figures, worldsci.sty