Adiabatic surfaces from the lattice: excited gluonic potentials

Abstract

I describe the results from lattice studies of probing the vacuum with static colour sources. Topics include (i) Twang the flux tube: string models and hybrid mesons. (ii) Charge up the flux tube: adjoint and sextet sources. (iii) Several sources: how does the colour flux get arranged?

19 pages, latex using worldsci.sty, 10 figures, talk presented at the CONFINEMENT III conference in Newport News, Virginia, USA

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