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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148829103321

Autore

Gorbenko Victor

Titolo

From QCD Flux Tubes to Gravitational S-matrix and Back / / by Victor Gorbenko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-44603-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 133 p. 32 illus., 24 illus. in color.)

Collana

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5053

Disciplina

530.143

Soggetti

Quantum field theory

String theory

Gravitation

Cosmology

Quantum Field Theories, String Theory

Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Doctoral Thesis accepted by New York University, New York, NY, USA."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Effective Field Theory for Relativistic Strings -- Worldsheet S-matrix -- Simplest Quantum Gravity -- Natural Tuning.-Flux Tube Spectrum from Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz.

Sommario/riassunto

This thesis studies various aspects of non-critical strings both as an example of a non-trivial and solvable model of quantum gravity and as a consistent approximation to the confining flux tube in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). It proposes and develops a new technique for calculating the finite volume spectrum of confining flux tubes. This technique is based on approximate integrability and it played a game-changing role in the study of confining strings. Previously, a theoretical interpretation of available high quality lattice data was impossible, because the conventional perturbative expansion for calculating the string spectra was badly asymptotically diverging in the regime accessible on the lattice. With the new approach, energy levels can be calculated for much shorter flux tubes than was previously possible, allowing for a quantitative comparison with existing lattice data. The



improved theoretical control makes it manifest that existing lattice data provides strong evidence for a new pseudoscalar particle localized on the QCD fluxtube - the worldsheet axion. The new technique paves a novel and promising path towards understanding the dynamics of quark confinement.