The static quark potential from a multilevel algorithm for the improved gauge action

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Mykkänen, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

't Hooft and Polyakov loops; Bosonic Strings; Lattice Gauge Field Theories; Wilson

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878480337     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2012)069     Document Type: Article

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