Probing the QCD Vacuum Using External Fields

2006/02/13 by Paolo Cea, Cea, Paolo, Leonardo Cosmai +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-lat

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/0602016

12 pages, 5 figures, Contributed to Sense of Beauty in Physics: Miniconference in Honor of Adriano Di Giacomo on his 70th Birthday, Pisa, Italy, 26-27 Jan 2006

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Abstract

The QCD vacuum can be studied using external fields. We report here results respectively obtained probing the lattice QCD vacuum by means of an abelian monopole field and of an abelian chromomagnetic field

Citations

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