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The potentials between static sources in various representaions in SU(3) are calculated based on the fat-center-vortices model of Faber, Greensite and Olejnik. At intermediate distances, most distributions of the flux within vortices lead…
By varying the vortex core size of the thick center vortex model, we have studied the short distance potentials between static sources. It has been found that fluctuations of the vortex core size lead to Coulombic behavior. Furthermore, we…
The thick center vortex model with the idea of using domain structures is used to calculate the potentials between two G(2) heavy sources in the fundamental, the adjoint and the 27 dimensional representations. The potentials are screened at…
The thick center vortex model is applied to G(2) gauge group to obtain the potentials between static sources of the fundamental and adjoint representations. The group G(2) has only one trivial center element and therefore it does not have…
The thick- or fat-center-vortices model has been applied to a calculation of the potentials between static sources of various SU(4) representations. For intermediate distances, a linear potential is obtained. For this region the string…
The thick center vortex model reproduces important aspects of the potentials between static quark sources as seen in lattice Yang-Mills calculations: Both the intermediate distance behavior, governed by Casimir scaling, as well as the long…
We show that gauge invariant definition of thin, thick and hybrid center vortices, defined by Kovacs and Tomboulis on SO(3) x Z(2) configurations, can also be defined in SU(2). We make this connection using the freedom of choosing a…
We study the potential between static SU(4) sources using the Model of Thick Center Vortices. Such vortices are characterized by the center elements $z_1=\mathrm i$ and $z_2=z_1^2$. Fitting the ratios of string tensions to those obtained in…
We elucidate the connection between $SO(3) \times Z(2)$ and the usual SU(2) configuration variables. By exploiting the freedom of choosing a particular SO(3) representative we find a direct connection between the two configuration spaces.…
We present simulation results comparing the SU(3) heavy quark potential extracted from the full Wilson loop expectation to that extracted from the expectation of the Wilson loop fluctuation solely by elements of Z(3). The two potentials are…
Potentials between static colour sources in eight different representations are computed in four dimensional SU(3) gauge theory. The simulations have been performed with the Wilson action on anisotropic lattices where the renormalised…
We discuss a non-quantized Gaussian flux limited to vary in a specific region of space which describes the Coulombic potential as well as confinement at intermediate distances for color potentials in various representations. Our…
In this article, a new calculation of static potentials between sources of different representations in SU(3) gauge group is presented. The results of author's previous study \cite{Deld00} at the smallest lattice spacing $a_{s}\simeq0.11$~…
We examine the manner in which a linear potential results from fluctuations due to vortices linked with the Wilson loop. Our discussion is based on exact relations and inequalities between the Wilson loop and the vortex and electric flux…
QCD confines quarks in all representations. From lattice calculations and fat center vortices model, we discuss that the coefficient of the linear term in the potential is proportional to both casimir scaling and the number of fundamental…
We study the correlations between center vortices and Abelian monopoles for SU($3$) gauge group. Combining fractional fluxes of monopoles, center vortex fluxes are constructed in the thick center vortex model. Calculating the potentials…
We show the running coupling as derived from the SU(3) QQ potential and discuss preliminary results on spin dependent heavy quark potentials from high statistics lattice simulations of SU(2) gauge theory. The precision suffices to study…
We present results on spin dependent potentials from lattice simulations of SU(2) gauge theory. The Coulomb like short range part of the central potential is identified as a mixed vector-scalar exchange while the linear long range part is…
Lattice simulations are presented showing the expectation of the fluctuation of the Wilson loop solely by elements of the center to fully reproduce the SU(3) heavy quark potential. The results are stable under smoothing, and point to thick…
In this paper I review shortly potentials obtained for SU(2), SU(3) and SU(4) static sources from fat-center-vortices model. Results confirm the confinement of quarks in all three gauge groups. Proportionality of string tensions with flux…