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QCD vacuum and confinement

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

This course consists of two lectures. In the first lecture I discuss why a non perturbative formulation of QCD is needed, and I show that lattice formulation copes with this need, even if it mainly produces numerical results. In the second lecture I discuss how lattice can help to understand the deconfinement transition.Such understanding is also important to predict parameters that can help in the interpretation of heavy ions high energy experiments.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0204001,
  title  = {QCD vacuum and confinement},
  author = {A. Di Giacomo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0204001},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Lectures presented at the PASI (Pan American Study Institute), Campos do Jordao, Brasil, January 2002. To appear in the Proceedings