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Quark Confinement: Flux-Density Diagram

Watch the Cornell confinement potential and its color-field energy density as a 2D lattice — pull the quark pair apart on an energy-landscape graph and a flux-density strip until the string snaps into two mesons.

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ControlsDrag the separation slider or click Pull apart to stretch the quark-antiquark pair, tune the string tension sigma, coupling alpha_s and pair-production threshold sliders, and hit Reset to restart the cycle. Watch the marker climb the V(r) energy-landscape graph and the density lattice below it widen and snap.

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This 2D companion renders the same Cornell-potential confinement physics as a live energy-landscape graph plus a color-field energy-density lattice, instead of a 3D flux tube. Pulling the quarks apart under V(r) = -(4/3)(α_sħc)/r + σr moves a marker up the potential curve and widens a numerically-normalized density band — the lattice's own trapezoid-rule integral is checked live against the closed-form V(r) every frame. Once the stored energy ΔV crosses the pair-production threshold, the density band snaps into two independent bands that drift apart: hadronization, the process behind particle jets at colliders like the LHC.

⚙ Under the hood

A 2D-native companion to the QCD flux-tube simulator: pull the quark pair apart on a live energy-landscape graph while a color-field energy-density lattice widens beneath it, until the stored string energy crosses the pair-production threshold and the lattice snaps into two drifting meson bands.

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