The high temperature phase transition in SU (N) gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1589-1613

  Lucini, Biagio ^a   Teper, Michael ^a   Wenger, Urs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Confinement; Lattice Gauge Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 23144440172     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/01/061     Document Type: Article

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