KTH/Nordita/SU seminar in Theoretical Physics

Analytic approach to confinement in 3d Yang-Mills theory

Name: Analytic approach to confinement in 3d Yang-Mills theory
Start: 2007-04-18T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2007-04-18T12:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

by Dimitra Karabali (CUNY, New York)

Wednesday 18 Apr 2007, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Stockholm

FB55

Description

We have formulated a Hamiltonian approach to 3d Yang-Mills theory in terms of manifestly gauge invariant variables. This provides a method of analyzing nonperturbative effects and has led to a number of interesting results on the mass gap, vacuum wavefunction and string tension. I will review this approach and also discuss more recent results on adjoint string-breaking.