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Adjoint 2D QCD and Pure 3D QCD: A Comparison of Spectra

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We briefly review the 1+1-dimensional SU(N) gauge theory minimally coupled to an adjoint scalar, based upon a dimensional reduction of 2+1-dimensional pure gauge theory, which approximates the dynamics of the transversely polarized gluon. The lightest glueball states are investigated non-perturbatively using light-front quantisation in the large-N limit a la 't Hooft, and the physical meaning of the results elucidated. Comparison is made with recent lattice Monte Carlo data for 3-dimensional quenched QCD.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9505009,
  title  = {Adjoint 2D QCD and Pure 3D QCD: A Comparison of Spectra},
  author = {F. Antonuccio and S. Dalley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9505009},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

9 LaTeX pages + 4 uuencoded.. figures. (Based on talk given at the Trieste Spring Workshop on String Theory, Gauge Theory, and Quantum Gravity)