XIIIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum

Thermal ground state in Quantum Yang-Mills theory

Not scheduled

30m

Hall E (Arts Bldg.)

Talk A: Vacuum structure and confinement Vacuum structure and confinement

Speaker

Dr Ralf Hofmann (ITP, Uni Heidelberg)

Description

We explain the essentials of the structure of the thermal ground state in the deconfining phase of SU(2) Quantum Yang-Mills theory. Applications here discussed involve the evolution of the coupling constant, aspects of the loop expansion of thermodynamical quantities and the polarization tensor the massless mode as well as a derivation of the 3D Ising critical exponent for the correlation length based on an exact solution for conformal temperature-redshift scaling.