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Topological susceptibility in Yang-Mills theory in the vacuum correlator method

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-07-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We calculate the topological susceptibility of the Yang-Mills vacuum using the field correlator method. Our estimate for the SU(3) gauge group, \chi^{1/4} = 196(7) MeV, is in a very good agreement with the results of recent numerical simulations of the Yang-Mills theory on the lattice.

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@article{arxiv.0705.4624,
  title  = {Topological susceptibility in Yang-Mills theory in the vacuum correlator method},
  author = {M. N. Chernodub and I. E. Kozlov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.4624},
  year   = {2011}
}

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5 pages (JETP Letters style)