Due to confinement, the strong interaction effectively only acts at short range. So if the gluons had some small non-zero mass (say they acquired it from a Higgs mechanism with a new "strong-Higgs" field, with a small VEV but a large mass for the "strong-Higgs" boson), would we notice the difference? Would such a theory behave qualitatively similarly to standard QCD?
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