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Instantons, the QCD Vacuum, and Hadronic Physics

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

A large body of evidence from lattice calculations indicates that instantons play a major role in the physics of light hadrons. This evidence is summarized, and recent results concerning the instanton content of the SU(3) vacuum, instanton contributions to the static potential, and a new class of instanton solutions at finite temperature are reviewed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9810053,
  title  = {Instantons, the QCD Vacuum, and Hadronic Physics},
  author = {John W. Negele},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9810053},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

13 pages, 8 figures, Latex using Boxed EPS Macros, LATTICE98 Plenary Talk

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