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Center vortices and k-strings

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

The vortex contribution to the kk-string tensions is computed for SU(NN) gauge theories. We deduce the surface densities needed to reproduce the sine scaling and the Casimir scaling formulae, recently obtained from numerical simulations on the lattice. We find that such densities need to grow linearly in NN, which in turn suggests that the vortex scenario can hardly reproduce the physics of confinement at large NN.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0205015,
  title  = {Center vortices and k-strings},
  author = {Luigi Del Debbio and Dmitri Diakonov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0205015},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Latex, 7 pages, 2 figures

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