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Universal Confining Strings: From Compact QED to the Hadron Spectrum

C.A. Trugenberger, F. Quevedo, L. Zapata, M.C. Diamantini

Compact QED with a theta term yields massive two-form strings whose infrared fixed point matches heavy quarkonium mass ratios to within 2.5 percent of experiment.

arxiv:2605.13791 v1 · 2026-05-13 · hep-th · hep-lat · hep-ph

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C1strongest claim

We compute the mass difference ratios for the heaviest quarkonium and find 2.5 percent agreement with experiment already at the infrared fixed point.

C2weakest assumption

That the dyon condensation phase of compact QED with a topological theta term is accurately captured by a massive two-form field B_mu nu that produces a consistent Brazovskii-Lifshitz string theory in 3+1 dimensions.

C3one line summary

Compact QED in the dyon phase maps to a massive two-form field whose IR fixed-point string theory reproduces a generalized Arvis potential and matches heaviest quarkonium mass ratios to 2.5 percent while raising the Regge intercept above the Nambu-Goto value.

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[1] An introduction to the confinement problem, 2011 · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14382-3

[2] Gross, et al., 50 Years of Quantum Chromodynamics, Eur 2023 · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11949-2

[3] Phys.B1381-25 (1978) 1978

[4] M. C. Diamantini, P. Sodano, C. A. Trugenberger, Gauge theories of Josephson junction arrays.Nuclear PhysicsfB474, 641-677 (1996) 1996

[5] M. C. Diamantini, C. A. Trugenberger, V. M. Vinokur, Confinement and asymptotic freedom with Cooper pairs.Comm. Phys.1, 77 (2018) 2018

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arxiv: 2605.13791 · arxiv_version: 2605.13791v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.13791 · pith_short_12: FMFD2LS6XJXA · pith_short_16: FMFD2LS6XJXAO3X2 · pith_short_8: FMFD2LS6

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