Spectrum of confining strings in SU(N) gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 161-184

  Del Debbio, Luigi ^a   Panagopoulos, Haralambos ^b   Rossi, Paolo ^a   Vicari, Ettore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; Confinement; Lattice Gauge Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044440829     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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