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    Probing Confinement with Chromomagnetic Fields

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    Using the lattice Schr\"odinger functional we study vacuum dynamics of SU(3) gauge theory at finite temperature. The vacuum is probed by means of an external constant Abelian chromomagnetic field. We find that by increasing the strength of the applied external field the deconfinement temperature decreases towards zero. This implies that strong enough Abelian chromomagnetic fields destroy confinement of color.Comment: Lattice2002(topology). 3 pages, 3 figure

    Exploring the Dynamics of Three-Dimensional Lattice Gauge Theories by External Fields

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    We investigate the dynamics of three-dimensional lattice gauge theories by means of an external Abelian magnetic field. For the SU(2) lattice gauge theory we find evidence of the unstable modes.Comment: 3 pages, PostScript. Contribution to the LATTICE 93 Conference (Dallas, U.S.A., September 1993) preprint BARI-TH-162/9

    Investigations on the deconfining phase transition in QCD

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    We investigate the deconfining phase transition in SU(3) pure gauge theory and in full QCD with two flavors of staggered fermions by means of a gauge invariant thermal partition functional. In the pure gauge case our finite size scaling analysis is in agreement with the well known weak first order phase transition. In the case of 2 flavors full QCD we find that the phase transition is consistent with weak first order, contrary to the expectation of a crossover for not too large quark masses.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures, Lattice2003(topology

    Unstable Modes and Confinement in the Lattice Schr\"odinger Functional Approach

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    We analyze the problem of the Nielsen-Olesen unstable modes in the SU(2) lattice gauge theory by means of a recently introduced gauge-invariant effective action. We perform numerical simulations in the case of a constant Abelian chromomagnetic field. We find that for lattice sizes above a certain critical length the density of effective action shows a behaviour compatible with the presence of the unstable modes. We put out a possible relation between the dynamics of the unstable modes and the confinement.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX2e file, 5 figure

    No Primordial Magnetic Field from Domain Walls

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    It is pointed out that, contrary to some claims in the literature, the domain walls cannot be a source of a correlated at large scales primordial magnetic field, even if the fermionic modes bound on the wall had ferromagnetic properties. In a particular model with massive (2+1) dimensional fermions bound to a domain wall, previously claimed to exhibit a ferromagnetic behavior, it is explicitly shown that the fermionic system in fact has properties of a normal diamagnetic with the susceptibility vanishing at high temperature.Comment: 8 pages. Modified discussion of the baryon density on an axion domain wal

    Indications on the Higgs boson mass from lattice simulations

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    The `triviality' of Φ44\Phi^4_4 has been traditionally interpreted within perturbation theory where the prediction for the Higgs boson mass depends on the magnitude of the ultraviolet cutoff Λ\Lambda. This approach crucially assumes that the vacuum field and its quantum fluctuations rescale in the same way. The results of the present lattice simulation, confirming previous numerical indications, show that this assumption is not true. As a consequence, large values of the Higgs mass mHm_H can coexist with the limit Λ\Lambda\to \infty . As an example, by extrapolating to the Standard Model our results obtained in the Ising limit of the one-component theory, one can obtain a value as large as mH=760±21m_H=760 \pm 21 GeV, independently of Λ\Lambda.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures, Lattice2003(higgs

    Long-wavelength excitations of Higgs condensates

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    Quite independently of the Goldstone phenomenon, recent lattice data suggest the existence of gap-less modes in the spontaneously broken phase of a λΦ4\lambda \Phi^4 theory. This result is a direct consequence of the quantum nature of the `Higgs condensate' that cannot be treated as a purely classical c-number field.Comment: 6 page

    Dynamical Generation of the Primordial Magnetic Field by Ferromagnetic Domain Walls

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    The spontaneous generation of uniform magnetic condensate in QED3QED_3 gives rise to ferromagnetic domain walls at the electroweak phase transition. These ferromagnetic domain walls are caracterized by vanishing effective surface energy density avoiding, thus, the domain wall problem. Moreover we find that the domain walls generate a magnetic field B1024GaussB \simeq 10^{24} Gauss at the electroweak scale which account for the seed field in the so called dynamo mechanism for the cosmological primordial magnetic field. We find that the annihilation processes of walls with size R105KmR \simeq 10^5 Km could release an energy of order 1052erg10^{52} erg indicating the invisible ferromagnetic walls as possible compact sources of Gamma Ray Bursts.Comment: LaTeX, 8 pages, 1 figur

    QCD dynamics in a constant chromomagnetic field

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    We investigate the phase transition in full QCD with two flavors of staggered fermions in presence of a constant abelian chromomagnetic field. We find that the critical temperature depends on the strength of the chromomagnetic field and that the deconfined phase extends to very low temperatures for strong enough fields. As in the case of zero external field, a single transition is detected, within statistical uncertainties, where both deconfinement and chiral symmetry restoration take place. We also find that the chiral condensate increases with the strength of the chromomagnetic field.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures, 1 tabl

    Color Dynamics in External Fields

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    We investigate the vacuum dynamics of U(1), SU(2), and SU(3) lattice gauge theories in presence of external (chromo)magnetic fields, both in (3+1) and (2+1) dimensions. We find that the critical coupling for the phase transition in compact U(1) gauge theory is independent of the strength of an external magnetic field. On the other hand we find that, both in (3+1) and (2+1) dimensions, the deconfinement temperature for SU(2) and SU(3) gauge systems in a constant abelian chromomagnetic field decreases when the strength of the applied field increases. We conclude that the dependence of the deconfinement temperature on the strength of an external constant chromomagnetic field is a peculiar feature of non abelian gauge theories and could be useful to get insight into color confinement.Comment: 26 pages, 14 figure
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