Review on string breaking - The query in quest of the evidence

Abstract

Considerable progress has been achieved recently in the observation of string breaking within non-Abelian Higgs models, by use of multi-channel methods allowing for broken string states. Similarly, in pure gauge theory this approach has been shown to reveal string breaking for color charges in the adjoint represenation. For QCD with dynamical fermions, one needs substantial progress in noise reduction, however, to render such techniques viable.