Renormalization of the cyclic Wilson loop

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2013)069zbMATH Open1342.81326arXiv1212.4413MaRDI QIDQ302876FDOQ302876

Authors: Matthias Berwein, Nora Brambilla, Jacopo Ghiglieri, Antonio Vairo 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In finite-temperature field theory, the cyclic Wilson loop is defined as a rectangular Wilson loop spanning the whole compactified time direction. In a generic non-abelian gauge theory, we calculate the perturbative expansion of the cyclic Wilson loop up to order g^4. At this order and after charge renormalization, the cyclic Wilson loop is known to be ultraviolet divergent. We show that the divergence is not associated with cusps in the contour but is instead due to the contour intersecting itself because of the periodic boundary conditions. One consequence of this is that the cyclic Wilson loop mixes under renormalization with the correlator of two Polyakov loops. The resulting renormalization equation is tested up to order g^6 and used to resum the leading logarithms associated with the intersection divergence. Implications for lattice studies of this operator, which may be relevant for the phenomenology of quarkonium at finite temperature, are discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4413

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zbMATH Keywords

QCDrenormalization regularization and renormalonsthermal field theoryWilson, 't Hooft and Polyakov loops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15)

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• Finite-Temperature Field Theory
• The cusp anomalous dimension at three loops and beyond
• Dimensionally regularized Polyakov loop correlators in hot QCD

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