24–30 Jul 2016
Highfield Campus, University of Southampton
Europe/London timezone

Computing the static potential using non-string-like trial states

25 Jul 2016, 17:25
20m
Building B2a Room 2065 (Highfield Campus, University of Southampton)

Building B2a Room 2065

Highfield Campus, University of Southampton

Talk Hadron Spectroscopy and Interactions Hadron Spectroscopy and Interactions

Speaker

Mr Tobias Neitzel (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Description

We present a method for computing the static quark-antiquark potential, which is not based on Wilson loops, but where the trial states are formed by eigenvector components of the covariant Laplace operator. We have tested this method in SU(2) Yang-Mills theory and obtained results with statistical errors of similar magnitude compared to a standard Wilson loop computation. The runtime of the method is, however, significantly smaller, when computing the static potential not only for on-axis, but also for many off-axis quark-antiquark separations, i.e. when a fine spatial resolution is required.

Primary authors

Mr Janik Kämper (Goethe University Frankfurt) Prof. Marc Wagner (Goethe University Frankfurt) Prof. Owe Philipsen (Goethe University Frankfurt) Mr Tobias Neitzel (Goethe University Frankfurt)

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