Lattice predictions for low-Q2phenomenology

Recent results of Monte Carlo simulations for SU(3) lattice gauge theories are used to make quantitative predictions which can be compared with QCD phenomenology. In particular, lattice results are used to predict the onset of nonperturbative effects and to determine the interquark potential. The relationship between ..lambda../sub 0/ and the short-distance scale of the qq-bar potential is also calculated. The predictions are in agreement with theoretical expectations, but indicate that fermions must be incorporated into the lattice calculations before any realistic results relevant to QCD can be derived.