Confinement and center vortex dynamics in different gauge groups

Journal Article · Mon Feb 26 23:00:00 EST 2007 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2714365· OSTI ID:21056800

Engelhardt, M; Sperisen, B ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003 (United States)

The random vortex world-surface model is extended to the gauge groups SU(4) and Sp(2). Compared to the SU(2) and SU(3) models studied previously, which reproduce the infrared properties of the corresponding Yang-Mills theories on the basis of a simple vortex world-surface curvature action, new dynamical characteristics become important. In the SU(4) case, an explicit dependence of the vortex effective action on the configuration of the Abelian magnetic monopoles residing on the vortices emerges; in the Sp(2) case, a new 'stickiness' contribution to the vortex action serves to drive the deconfinement phase transition towards the correct first-order behavior.

• OSTI ID: 21056800
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 892; ISSN 0094-243X; ISSN APCPCS
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ACTION INTEGRAL
BAG MODEL
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
GAUGE INVARIANCE
MAGNETIC MONOPOLES
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
RANDOMNESS
SP GROUPS
SU-2 GROUPS
SU-3 GROUPS
SU-4 GROUPS
VORTICES
YANG-MILLS THEORY