XIIIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum

Thermal effective potential for the Polyakov loop to higher loop order

5 Aug 2018, 18:10

20m

Hall F (Arts Bldg.)

Talk D: Deconfinement Deconfinement

Speaker

Hiromichi Nishimura (RIKEN BNL)

Description

We compute the effective potential for the Polyakov loop in a pure SU(N) gauge theory beyond two-loop order. We introduce a new approach using the Poisson resummation formula, which is well suited to compute thermal sums/integrals with non-trivial holonomy. We discuss the implications for phenomenology with three colors, and theoretical questions at large N.

Presentation materials

Nishimura_QCHS.pdf