Magnetic Screening in Thermal Yang-Mills Theories
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چکیده
We develop a semiclassical method to calculate the density of magnetic monopoles in non-abelian gauge theories at finite temperature in the dilute gas approximation. This quantity is related to the inverse magnetic screening length for which we obtain μM = 0.255g T in SU(2).
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