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We study $theta$ dependence of the vacuum energy for the 4d SU(2) pure Yang-Mills theory by lattice numerical simulations. The response of topological excitations to the smearing procedure is investigated in detail, in order to extract topological information from smeared gauge configurations. We determine the first two coefficients in the $theta$ expansion of the vacuum energy, the topological susceptibility $chi$ and the first dimensionless coefficient $b_2$, in the continuum limit. We find consistency of the SU(2) results with the large $N$ scaling. By analytic continuing the number of colors, $N$, to non-integer values, we infer the phase diagram of the vacuum structure of SU(N) gauge theory as a function of $N$ and $theta$. Based on the numerical results, we provide quantitative evidence that 4d SU(2) Yang-Mills theory at $theta = pi$ is gapped with spontaneous breaking of the CP symmetry.
We present an update of our project of computing the meson spectrum and decay constants in large-N QCD. The results are obtained in the quenched approximation with the Wilson fermion action for N = 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 17 and extrapolated to infinite
Non-perturbative aspects of the physics of $Sp(2N)$ gauge theories are interesting for phenomenological and theoretical reasons, and little studied so far, particularly in the approach to the large-$N$ limit. We examine the spectrum of glueballs and
We present the result of our computation of the lowest lying meson masses for SU(N) gauge theory in the large $N$ limit (with $N_f/Nlongrightarrow 0$). The final values are given in units of the square root of the string tension, and with errors whic
Meson masses and decay constants in the large $N$ limit of SU($N$) gauge theory are determined using the twisted Eguchi-Kawai reduced model. To this end, we make use of a recently defined smearing method valid on the one-point lattice. This procedure
Recently, we proposed a new method to calculate meson propagators in the large $N$ limit from twisted space-time reduced model. In this note, we give simulation details for obtaining meson spectra and discuss the smearing technique which should impro