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Raymond and instantons: some recollections and the use of ADHM
Chris P. Korthals Altes
After the discovery of the BRST identities in 1974 Raymond spent some two years mostly on instantons. In those years we had a small group at the Centre Physique Théorique in Marsei…
Caloron correction to the effective potential in thermal gluodynamics
Chris P. Korthals Altes, Alfonso Sastre
The effective potential in thermal gluodynamics has stable minima in perturbation theory. There the Wilson line is center group valued and eigenvalues of the Wilson line stay clust…
The thermal instanton determinant in compact form
Chris. P. Korthals Altes, Alfonso Sastre
The thermal instanton determinant for the gauge group can be reduced to a form involving two simple functions. Various boundary conditions can easily incorporated. Only a t…
Two-loop perturbative corrections to the thermal effective potential in gluodynamics
Adrian Dumitru, Yun Guo, Chris P. Korthals Altes
The thermodynamics of pure glue theories can be described in terms of an effective action for the Polyakov loop. This effective action is of the Landau-Ginzburg type and its variab…
Effective matrix model for deconfinement in pure gauge theories
Adrian Dumitru, Yun Guo, Yoshimasa Hidaka +2
We construct matrix models for the deconfining phase transition in SU(N) gauge theories, without dynamical quarks, at a nonzero temperature T. We generalize models with zero and on…
Domain Walls and Metastable Vacua in Hot Orientifold Field Theories
Adi Armoni, Chris P. Korthals Altes, Agostino Patella
We consider "Orientifold field theories", namely SU(N) gauge theories with Dirac fermions in the two-index representation at high temperature. When N is even these theories exhibit…
Magnetic monopoles in hot QCD
C. P. Korthals Altes
In this talk we review how a dilute gas of magnetic monopoles in the adjoint describes the spatial k-Wilson loops. We formulate an effective theory from by integrating o…
Spatial 't Hooft loop to cubic order in hot QCD II
P. Giovannangeli, C. P. Korthals Altes
In this paper we provide an exact formula for the area law of the 't Hooft loop for any SU(N) gauge group to cubic order in hot gauge theory. The correction is very small for all t…
Dilute monopole gas, magnetic screening and k-tensions in hot gluodynamics
C. P. Korthals Altes
An adjoint multiplet of screened monopoles forming a dilute gas fits very well lattice data at high . There are now seven ratios for k-strings available, checking within a few p…
Cubic order for spatial 't Hooft loop in hot QCD
P. Giovannangeli, C. P. Korthals Altes
Spatial 't Hooft loops of strength k measure the qualitative change in the behaviour of electric colour flux in confined and deconfined phase of SU(N) gauge theory. They show an ar…
Spatial 't Hooft loop to cubic order in hot QCD
P. Giovannangeli, C. P. Korthals Altes
Spatial 't Hooft loops of strength k measure the qualitative change in the behaviour of electric colour flux in confined and deconfined phase of SU (N) gauge theory. They show an a…
Finite temperature Z(N) phase transition with Kaluza-Klein gauge fields
K. Farakos, P. de Forcrand, C. P. Korthals Altes +2
If SU(N) gauge fields live in a world with a circular extra dimension, coupling there only to adjointly charged matter, the system possesses a global Z(N) symmetry. If the radius i…
Quasi particles in hot QCD
P. Giovannangeli, C. P Korthals Altes
We show at very high temperature how the behaviour of the spatial 't Hooft loop in the QCD plasma is simply related to the chromo electric flux of the gluons. This simple picture i…
A remark on higher dimension induced domain wall defects in our world
C. P. Korthals Altes, M. Laine
There has been recent interest in new types of topological defects arising in models with compact extra dimensions. We discuss in this context the old statement that if only SU(N)…
't Hooft and Wilson loop ratios in the QCD plasma
P. Giovannangeli, C. P. Korthals Altes
The spatial 't Hooft loop measuring the electric flux and the spatial Wilsonloop measuring the magnetic flux are analyzed in hot SU(N) gauge theory. Both display area laws. On one…
Magnetic Z(N) symmetry in hot QCD and the spatial Wilson loop
C. P. Korthals Altes, A. Kovner
We discuss the relation between the deconfining phase transition in gauge theories and the realization of the magnetic Z(N) symmetry. At low temperature the Z(N) symmetry is sponta…
The Potential for the Phase of the Wilson line at Nonzero Quark Density
C. P. Korthals Altes, Robert D. Pisarski, Annamaria Sinkovics
The contribution of quarks to the effective potential for the phase of the Wilson line is computed at nonzero temperature and quark chemical potential to one and two loop order. At…
Phase diagram of 3D SU(3) gauge-adjoint Higgs system and C- violation in hot QCD
S. Bronoff, C. P. Korthals Altes
Thermally reduced QCD leads to three dimensional SU(3) gaugefields coupled to an adjoint scalar field . We compute the effective potential in the one-loop approximation and ev…
Debye mass from domainwalls and dimensionally reduced phase diagram
S. Bronoff, C. P. Korthals Altes
To measure the Debye mass in dimensionally reduced QCD for we replace in the correlator of two Polyakov loops one of the loops by a wall triggered by a dimensionally red…
Wilson line in high temperature particle physics
S. Bronoff, G. Dvali, K. Farakos +1
The physics of the Wilson line leads to new developments in high temperature particle physics. The main tool is the effective action for a given fixed value of the phase of the Wil…
Domain walls and perturbation theory in high temperature gauge theory: SU(2) in 2+1 dimensions
C. Korthals Altes, A. Michels, M. Stephanov +1
We study the detailed properties of Z_2 domain walls in the deconfined high temperature phase of the d=2+1 SU(2) gauge theory. These walls are studied both by computer simulations…
Gauge Theory in d=2+1 at High Temperature: Z_N interface
C. Korthals Altes, A. Michels, M. Stephanov +1
We calculate on the lattice the interface tension in the SU(2) pure gauge theory in d=2+1 at high temperature. The result is compared to the perturbative prediction. The agreement…
CP Violating Metastable States and Baryogenesis in the Hot Standard Model
C. P. Korthals Altes, N. J. Watson
We discuss a novel form of CP violation in the standard model. It takes place at temperatures of the order of the electroweak transition, when two regions with different values of…
Phase of the Wilson Line at High Temperature in the Standard Model
Chris P. Korthals Altes, Kimyeong Lee, Robert D. Pisarski
We compute the effective potential for the phase of the Wilson line at high temperature in the standard model to one loop order. Besides the trivial vacua, there are metastable sta…