Short distance physics with heavy quark potentials

Oct, 2001
3 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B Proc.Suppl. 106 (2002) 519-521
e-Print:
Report number:
  • BI-TP-2001-26

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Abstract:
We present lattice studies of heavy quark potentials in the quenched approximation of QCD at finite temperatures. Both, the color singlet and color averaged potentials are calculated. While the potentials are well known at large distances, we give a detailed analysis of their short distance behavior (from 0.015 fm to 1 fm) near the critical temperature. At these distances we expect that the T-dependent potentials go over into the zero temperature potential. Indeed, we find evidences that the temperature influence gets suppressed and the potentials starts to become a unique function of the underlying distance scale. We use this feature to normalize the heavy quark potentials at short distances and extract the free energy of the quark system in a gluonic heat bath.
Note:
  • Lattice2001(hightemp), 3 pages, 2 figures
  • talk: Berlin 2001/08/19
  • gauge field theory: SU(3)
  • lattice field theory
  • finite temperature
  • heavy quark
  • quark: potential
  • numerical calculations: Monte Carlo