Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2004-07-09
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Invited talk at the International Workshop "QCD DOWN UNDER", Adelaide, Australia, 10-19 Mar 2004. 6 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2004.12.03
Svetitsky and Yaffe have argued that -- if the deconfinement phase transition of a (d+1)-dimensional Yang-Mills theory with gauge group G is second order -- it should be in the universality class of a d-dimensional scalar model symmetric under the center C(G) of G. These arguments have been investigated numerically only considering Yang-Mills theory with gauge symmetry in the G=SU(N) branch, where C(G)=Z(N). The symplectic groups Sp(N) provide another extension of SU(2)=Sp(1) to general N and they all have the same center Z(2). Hence, in contrast to the SU(N) case, Sp(N) Yang-Mills theory allows to study the relevance of the group size on the order of the deconfinement phase transition keeping the available universality class fixed. Using lattice simulations, we present numerical results for the deconfinement phase transition in Sp(2) and Sp(3) Yang-Mills theories both in (2+1)d and (3+1)d. We then make a conjecture on the order of the deconfinement phase transition in Yang-Mills theories with general Lie groups SU(N), SO(N), Sp(N) and with exceptional groups G(2), F(4), E(6), E(7), E(8). Numerical results for G(2) Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature in (3+1)d are also presented.
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