On the spectrum of closed k = 2 flux tubes in D=2+1 SU (N) gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Athenodorou, Andreas ^a   Bringoltz, Barak ^b   Teper, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

1 N expansion; Bosonic strings; Confinement; Lattice gauge field theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649516022     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/019     Document Type: Article

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