Static force from the lattice

2019/11/08 by Nora Brambilla, Viljami Leino, Brambilla, Nora +9
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1911.03290

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Abstract

We present a novel approach to compute the force between a static quark and a static antiquark from lattice gauge theory directly, rather than extracting it from the static energy. We explore this approach for SU(3) pure gauge theory using the multilevel algorithm and smeared operators.

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