The interpretation of virtual gluons as ghosts in the non-linear gluonic structure of QCD permits the formulation and realization of a manifestly gauge-invariant and Lorentz covariant theory of interacting quarks/anti-quarks, for all values of coupling. The simplest example of quark/anti-quark scattering in a high-energy, quenched, eikonal model at large coupling is shown to be expressible as a set of finite, local integrals which may be evaluated numerically; and before evaluation, it is clear that the result will be dependent only on, and is damped by increasing momentum transfer, while displaying a physically-reasonable color dependence in a manner underlying the MIT Bag Model and an effective, asymptotic freedom. Similar but more complicated integrals will result from all possible gluonic-radiative corrections to this simplest eikonal model. Our results are compatible with an earlier, field-strength analysis of Reinhardt et al. © Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica 2009.
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Fried, H. M., Gabellini, Y., Grandou, T., & Sheu, Y. M. (2010). Gauge-invariant summation of All QCD virtual gluon exchanges. European Physical Journal C, 65(3), 395–411. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1224-7
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