A new model for confinement

Understand

We propose a new approach towards the understanding of confinement.

• Starting from an anisotropic five dimensional pure gauge theory, we approach a second order phase transition where the system reduces dimensionally.
• Dimensional reduction is realized via localization of the gauge and scalar degrees of freedom on four dimensional branes.
• The gauge coupling deriving from the brane Wilson loop observable runs like an asymptotically free coupling at short distance, while it exhibits clear signs of string formation at long distance.