# Color flux tubes in $SU(3)$ Yang-Mills theory: an investigation with the connected correlator

## TL;DR

This paper investigates the flux tube between static color sources in 4D SU(3) Yang-Mills theory using a connected correlator without smoothing, analyzing renormalization and extracting dual superconductivity parameters.

## Contribution

It introduces a method to study flux tubes with stochastically exact techniques, avoiding smoothing algorithms, and provides new insights into the renormalization and properties of the flux tube.

## Key findings

- Numerical data on the longitudinal chromoelectric flux component.
- Analysis of the renormalization properties of the connected operator.
- Extraction of dual superconductivity parameters from flux tube data.

## Abstract

In this work we perform an investigation of the flux tube between two static color sources in four dimensional $SU(3)$ Yang-Mills theory, using the so called connected correlator. Contrary to most previous studies we do not use any smoothing algorithm to facilitate the evaluation of the correlator, that is performed using only stochastically exact techniques. We first examine the renormalization properties of the connected operator, then we present our numerical data for the longitudinal chromoelectric component of the flux tube, that are used to extract the dual superconductivity parameters.