Speaker
Thomas Schaefer
(North Carolina State University)
Description
Finding controlled, analytical approaches to the deconfinement
transition in QCD is an old problem. Here we present a weak
coupling calculation of the deconfinement transition in a deformed
version of QCD. The deformation involves adding a fermion in the
adjoint representation, subject to twisted boundary condistions
along the thermal circle. We argue that the transition in the
deformed theory is continuously connected to the transition in
pure gauge theory, which takes place in strong coupling.
Author
Thomas Schaefer
(North Carolina State University)
