Static force from the lattice

Abstract

We present a novel approach to compute the force between a static quark and a static antiquark from lattice gauge theory directly, rather than extracting it from the static energy. We explore this approach for SU(3) pure gauge theory using the multilevel algorithm and smeared operators.

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of the 37th Annual International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 16-22 June 2019, Wuhan, China