A Finite Size Analysis of the Heavy Quark Potential in a Deconfining Medium

Apr, 1988
17 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 315 (1989) 419-435
  • Published: 1989
Report number:
  • CERN-TH-5024-88,
  • BI-TP-88-11

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
From lattice studies of Polyakov loop correlations, we determine the potential for a static quark-antiquark pair in a thermal SU(2) gauge field system above the deconfinement temperature. We perform a high statistics, finite size analysis of the heavy quark potential. We investigate the functional form of the potential at intermediate distances and compare it to continuum perturbation theory predictions.
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: SU(2)
  • field theory: finite temperature
  • LATTICE FIELD THEORY: POLYAKOV LOOP
  • QUARK ANTIQUARK: POTENTIAL
  • EFFECT: FINITE SIZE
  • MASS: SCREENING
  • SCREENING: MASS
  • NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS: MONTE CARLO