Heavy quark and gluino potentials to two loops

TL;DR

This paper computes the static potentials for heavy quark-antiquark pairs, gluino pairs, and quark-gluino systems across all color configurations in an SU(N_c) gauge group, advancing understanding of their interactions.

Contribution

It provides the first complete two-loop calculations of static potentials for various heavy particle systems in all color states within SU(N_c).

Findings

Calculated potentials for heavy quark-antiquark, gluino pairs, and quark-gluino systems.

Covered all possible color configurations in SU(N_c).

Enhanced theoretical understanding of heavy particle interactions in gauge theories.

Abstract

The static potentials for systems of a heavy quark and anti-quark, two gluinos and a quark and a gluino are computed for all possible colour configurations of a $SU(N_c)$ gauge group.