Mesons in large-N QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Bali, Gunnar ^a,b   Bursa, Francis ^c   Castagnini, Luca ^a   Collins, Sara ^a   Del Debbio, Luigi ^d   Lucini, Biagio ^e   Panero, Marco ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; AdS CFT Correspondence; Lattice QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880352474     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2013)071     Document Type: Article

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