PIRSA:10120025

Aspects of confinement from the functional Renormalization Group

Eichhorn, A. (2010). Aspects of confinement from the functional Renormalization Group. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/10120025

Eichhorn, Astrid. Aspects of confinement from the functional Renormalization Group. Perimeter Institute, Dec. 01, 2010, https://pirsa.org/10120025 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:10120025,
            doi = {10.48660/10120025},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/10120025},
            author = {Eichhorn, Astrid},
            keywords = {Quantum Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {Aspects of confinement from the functional Renormalization Group},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2010},
            month = {dec},
            note = {PIRSA:10120025 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Astrid Eichhorn University of Southern Denmark

DOI 10.48660/10120025
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

The functional Renormalization Group is a continuum method to study quantum field theories in the non-perturbative regime. In Yang-Mills theory, it can be used to relate fully nonperturbative low-order correlation functions in particular gauges to observables such as confinement order parameters. As a special application, we determine the order of the phase transition and the critical temperature for various gauge groups (SU(N), N=3,.,12, Sp(2) and E(7)). This also allows to investigate what determines the order of the deconfinement phase transition. Furthermore we study the non-perturbative effective potential for the field strength, where we observe the formation of a gluon condensate in the vacuum.