Monopole loop distribution and confinement in SU(2) lattice gauge theory

The abelian-projected monopole loop distribution is extracted from maximal abelian gauge simulations. The number of loops of a given length falls as a power nearly independent of lattice size. This power increases with β=4/g2, reaching five around β=2.85, beyond which, it is shown, loops any finite fraction of the lattice size vanish in the infinite lattice limit.