String effects in the Wilson loop: a high precision numerical test

1996/09/26 by M. Caselle, R. Fiore, F. Gliozzi +2 · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-lat

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(96)00672-4

published as Nucl.Phys.B486:245-260,1997 · 19 pages, LaTeX file + two .eps figures

arxiv created 1996/09/26 · openalex publication_date 1997/02/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

We test numerically the effective string description of the infrared limit of lattice gauge theories in the confining regime. We consider the 3d Z(2) lattice gauge theory, and we define ratios of Wilson loops such that the predictions of the effective string theory do not contain any adjustable parameters. In this way we are able to obtain a degree of accuracy high enough to show unambiguously that the flux--tube fluctuations are described, in the infrared limit, by an effective bosonic string theory.

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