21–29 Aug 2019
Europe/Athens timezone
ICNFP 2019 follows HiX 2019 (also at the OAC), Int. Workshop devoted to Nucleon Structure at Large Bjorken-x (https://indico.cern.ch/event/799284/overview). Related ICNFP Session organized with HiX 2019 convenors will take place the 22-23 August

Branching of Center Vortices in SU(3) Lattice Gauge Theory

22 Aug 2019, 13:00
30m
Room 3

Room 3

Oral Presentation Workshop on QCD Workshop on QCD

Speaker

Prof. Hugo Reinhardt (Tübingen University)

Description

The branching of center vortices in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory in maximal center gauge is analyzed. When properly normalized, one can define a branching probability that turns out to be independent of the lattice spacing (in the limited scaling window studied here). The branching probability shows a rapid change at the deconfinement phase transition which is much more pronounced in space slices of the lattice as compared to time slices. Though not a strict order parameter (in the sense that it vanishes in one phase) the branching probability is thus found to be a reliable indicator for both the location of the critical temperature and the geometric re-arrangement of vortex matter across the deconfinement phase transition

Primary author

Prof. Hugo Reinhardt (Tübingen University)

Co-authors

Dr Markus Quandt Mr Felix Sprengler

Presentation materials