Published May 23, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Confinement and deconfinement for any gauge group from dyons viewpoint

  • 1. Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Bochum 44780 (Germany)
  • 2. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina 188300, St. Petersburg (Russian Federation)

Description

Basing on a semiclassical picture of dyons, we present a nonperturbative model of a pure Yang-Mills theory at any temperatures, for an arbitrary simple gauge group. We argue that at low temperatures dyons drive the Yang-Mills system for all groups to a phase where the 'eigenphases' of the Polyakov line are, as a vector, proportional to the Weyl vector being the half sum of positive roots. For most gauge groups it means confinement, in particular for 'quarks' in any N-ality nonzero representation of the SU(N) gauge group. At a critical temperature there is a 1st order phase transition for all groups (except SU(2) where the transition is 2nd order), characterized by a jump of Polyakov lines, irrespectively of whether the gauge group has a nontrivial center, or not.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
1343
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 69-74
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
9. international conference on quark confinement and the hadron spectrum
Acronym
QCHS 9
Dates
30 Aug - 3 Sep 2010
Place
Madrid (Spain)

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(c) 2011 American Institute of Physics