# Who Confines Quarks? - On Non-Abelian Monopoles and Dynamics of Confinement

Source: [Who Confines Quarks? - On Non-Abelian Monopoles and Dynamics of Confinement](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa362c1e209131ce8a7a14>)

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Authors: K. Konishi

Published: 2003-04-17T15:15:13.000Z

## Abstract

The role non-Abelian magnetic monopoles play in the dynamics of confinement is discussed by examining carefully a class of supersymmetric gauge theories as theoretical laboratories. In particular, in the so-called $r$-vacua of softly broken ${N}=2$ supersymmmetric $SU(n\_c)$ QCD, the Goddard-Olive-Nuyts-Weinberg monopoles appear as the dominant low-energy effective degrees of freedom. Even more interesting is the physics of confining vacua which are deformations of nontrivial superconformal theories. We argue that in such cases, occurring in the $r= {n\_f \\over 2}$ vacua of $SU(n\_c)$ theories or in all of confining vacua of $USp(2n\_c)$ or $SO(n\_f)$ theories with massless flavors, a new mechanism of confinement involving strongly interacting non-Abelian magnetic monopoles is at work.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0304157>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0304157.pdf>)