Abelian chromomagnetic fields and confinement

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 655-665

  Cea, Paolo ^a   Cosmai, Leonardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Confinement; Lattice Gauge Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044440187     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/02/031     Document Type: Article

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