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Laboratory for Particle Physics (LTP)


LTP Colloquium

Instantons and Confinement

Thursday, April 17, 2008, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium

F. Lenz, Erlangen University

Abstract:
In this talk I will show that color fields constructed from simple building blocks, the instantons, give rise to confinement - the system cannot be dissociated into the building blocks and the interaction energy of two color charges increases linearly with their distance. I will discuss random and dynamical properties of the field configurations, report on the results for various observables and will exhibit the evidence for formation of flux-tubes.