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Dynamical suppression of large instantons

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2010-12-23 v1

Abstract

We investigate the distribution of instanton sizes in the framework of a simplified model for ensembles of instantons. This model takes into account the non-diluteness of instantons. The infrared problem for the integration over instanton sizes is dealt with in a self-consistent manner by approximating instanton interactions by a repulsive hard core potential. This leads to a dynamical suppression of large instantons. The characteristic features of the instanton size distribution are studied by means of analytic and Monte Carlo methods. We find a power law behaviour for small sizes, consistent with the semi-classical results. At large instanton sizes the distribution decays exponentially. The results are compared with those from lattice simulations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0111017,
  title  = {Dynamical suppression of large instantons},
  author = {Gernot Münster and Christel Kamp},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0111017},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

2 pages, 1 figure, talk presented at Lattice2001(confinement)

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