High - T QCD and dimensional reduction: Measuring the Debye mass

Sep, 1997
3 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B Proc.Suppl. 63 (1998) 418-420
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Report number:
  • BI-TP-97-35

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Abstract:
We study the high-temperature phase of SU(2) and SU(3) QCD using lattice simulations of an effective 3-dimensional SU(N) + adjoint Higgs -theory, obtained through dimensional reduction. We investigate the phase diagram of the 3D theory, and find that the high-T QCD phase corresponds to the metastable symmetric phase of the 3D theory. We measure the Debye screening mass m_D with gauge invariant operators; in particular we determine the O(g^2) and O(g^3) corrections to m_D. The corrections are seen to be large, modifying the standard power-counting hierarchy in high temperature QCD.
Note:
  • 3 pages, Latex, 3 figures. Presented by K. Rummukainen at Lattice '97 Report-no: BI-TP 97/35
  • talk: Edinburgh 1997/07/22
  • lattice field theory
  • gauge field theory: SU(2)
  • gauge field theory: SU(3)
  • critical phenomena: finite temperature
  • gauge field theory: SU(N)
  • dimension: 3
  • Higgs model
  • dimensional reduction
  • mass: screening