28 August 2016 to 4 September 2016
Europe/Athens timezone

Confinement and center vortices: a review of old and new results

31 Aug 2016, 08:45
30m
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Ceremony Hall of AUTH, Egnatia 737 54636 Thessaloniki
Plenary sessions Plenary

Speaker

Prof. Jeff Greensite (San Francisco State University)

Description

I review the motivation and evidence for the center vortex confinement mechanism, including the relevance of multiple-winding Wilson loops to the confinement problem, and the recent work of Trewartha, Kamleh, and Leinweber connecting center vortices with instantons and chiral symmetry breaking.

Primary author

Prof. Jeff Greensite (San Francisco State University)

Presentation materials