Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2009-12-17
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Lectures at the 49'th Cracow School of Theoretical Physics; 78 pages
Scientific paper
I begin these three lectures by describing some of the useful things that we have learned about large-N gauge theories using lattice simulations. For example that the theory is confining in that limit, that for many quantities SU(3) is close to SU(oo), and that this includes the strongly coupled gluon plasma just above Tc, thus providing some of the justification needed to make use of gauge-gravity duality in analysing QCD at RHIC/LHC temperatures. I then turn, in a more detailed discussion, to recent progress on the problem of what effective string theory describes confining flux tubes. I describe lattice calculations of the energy spectrum of closed loops of confining flux, and some dramatic analytic progress in extending the `universal Luscher correction' to terms that are of higher order in 1/l, where l is the length of the string. Both approaches point increasingly to the Nambu-Goto free string theory as being the appropriate starting point for describing string-like degrees of freedom in SU(N) gauge theories.
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