Topological susceptibility of SU(N) gauge theories at finite temperature

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 631-639

  Debbio, Luigi Del ^a   Panagopoulos, Haralambos ^b   Vicari, Ettore ^c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Lattice Gauge Field Theories; Lattice QCD; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044481821     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/09/028     Document Type: Article

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