19 July 2010 to 13 August 2010
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

Calorons with non-trivial holonomy

10 Aug 2010, 11:00
30m
TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

TH Theory Conference Room

CERN

Speaker

Pierre van Baal (Institut Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, University of Leiden)

Description

The progress on calorons (finite temperature instantons) is sketched. In particular there is some interest for confining temperatures, where the holonomy (the asymptotic value of the Polyakov loop) is non-trivial. I also will give more recent results by others.

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