Lattice study of hybrid static potentials

Abstract

We report about a recently started project with the aim to compute hybrid static potentials using lattice gauge theory. First preliminary results for pure SU(2) Yang-Mills theory are presented.

Comments: 5 pages, 6 figures, talk given at a workshop for young scientists with research interests focused on physics at FAIR (Fairness 2014), September 21-27 2014, Vietri sul Mare, Italy; references added; comment on short distance behavior added