Closed flux tubes in higher representations and their string description in D=2+1 SU(N) gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Athenodorou, Andreas ^a   Teper, Michael ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887212637     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2013)053     Document Type: Article

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