Properties of the deconfining phase transition in SU(N) gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 2, 2005, Pages 783-826

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

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Confinement; Lattice Gauge Field Theories; Nonperturbative Effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944582065     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/02/033     Document Type: Article

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