TY - RPRT AU - Reuter, M. AU - Wetterich, C. TI - Search for the QCD ground state IS - hep-ph/9405300 M1 - PUBDB-2023-05832 M1 - hep-ph/9405300 M1 - DESY-94-081 M1 - HD-THEP-94-6 SP - 16 PY - 1994 AB - Within the Euclidean effective action approach we propose criteria for the ground state of QCD. Despite a nonvanishing field strength the ground state should be invariant with respect to modified Poincaré transformations consisting of a combination of translations and rotations with suitable gauge transformations. We have found candidate states for QCD with four or more colours. The formation of gluon condensates shows similarities with the Higgs phenomenon. KW - quantum chromodynamics: ground state (INSPIRE) KW - effective action: Euclidean (INSPIRE) KW - invariance: Lorentz (INSPIRE) KW - invariance: gauge (INSPIRE) KW - gluon: condensation (INSPIRE) KW - color (INSPIRE) KW - gauge field theory: SU(3) (INSPIRE) KW - gauge field theory: SU(4) (INSPIRE) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)29 DO - DOI:10.3204/PUBDB-2023-05832 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/594448 ER -