Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2008-11-13
PoS LATTICE2008:202,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Talk at 26th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2008), Williamsburg, Virginia, 14-20 Jul 2008
Scientific paper
SU(N) gauge theories, extended with adjoint fermions having periodic boundary conditions, are confining at high temperature for sufficiently light fermion mass m. Lattice simulations indicate that this confining region is smoothly connected to the confining region of low-temperature pure SU(N) gauge theory. In the high temperature confining region, the one-loop effective potential for Polyakov loops has a Z(N)-symmetric confining minimum. String tensions associated with Polyakov loops are smooth functions of m/T. In the magnetic sector, the Polyakov loop plays a role similar to a Higgs field, leading to a breaking of SU(N) to U(1)^{N-1}. This is turn yields an effective theory where magnetic monopoles give rise to string tensions for spatial Wilson loops. These string tensions are calculable semiclassically. There are many analytical predictions for the high-temperature region that can be tested by lattice simulations, but lattice work will be crucial for exploring the crossover from this region to the low-temperature confining behavior of pure gauge theories.
Meisinger Peter N.
Ogilvie Michael C.
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