Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
1998-04-07
Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 014512
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
86 pages; LaTeX; typos corrected, references added and minor changes for publication
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.59.014512
We calculate the mass spectra and string tensions of SU(2), SU(3), SU(4) and SU(5) gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions. We do so by simulating the corresponding lattice theories and then extrapolating dimensionless mass ratios to the continuum limit. We find that such mass ratios are, to a first approximation, independent of the number of colours and that the remaining dependence can be accurately reproduced by a simple O(1/N.N) correction. This provides us with a prediction of these mass ratios for all SU(N) theories in 2+1 dimensions and demonstrates that these theories are already `close' to N=infinity for N=2. We find that the theory retains a non-zero confining string tension as N goes to infinity and that the dimensionful coupling g.g is proportional to 1/N at large N, when expressed in units of the dynamical length scale of the theory. During the course of these calculations we study in detail the effects of including over-relaxation in the Monte Carlo, of using a mean-field improved coupling to extrapolate to the continuum limit, and the use of space-time asymmetric lattice actions to resolve heavy glueball correlators.
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