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An update in monopole condensation in two-flavour Adjoint QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-04-14 v1

Abstract

QCD with fermions in the adjoint representation (aQCD) is a model for which a deconfinement and a chiral phase transition take place at different temperatures. In this work, we present a study of the deconfinement transition in the dual superconductor picture based on the evaluation of an operator which carries magnetic charge. The expectation value of this operator signals monopole condensation and is an order parameter for deconfinement as in the case of fermions in the fundamental representation. We find a sharp first order deconfinement transition. We also study the effects of the chiral transition on the monopole order parameter and find them negligible.

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@article{arxiv.0710.1713,
  title  = {An update in monopole condensation in two-flavour Adjoint QCD},
  author = {G. Lacagnina and G. Cossu and M. D'Elia and A. Di Giacomo and C. Pica},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.1713},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages. Talk presented at the The XXV International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 30-4 August 2007, Regensburg, Germany

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