Probing the quark gluon plasma with a new fermionic correlator

Jun, 1999
9 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 83 (1999) 3784-3787
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Report number:
  • TIFR-TH-99-29

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Abstract:
We present the first measurement of a new correlation function of Fermion bilinears in finite temperature QCD with and without dynamical quarks in a quantum number channel in which non-trivial correlations are known to be present for purely gluonic operators. We find that the Fermion correlator vanishes for T3Tc/2T \ge 3T_c/2, in agreement with the expectation for weakly interacting quarks in a quark-gluon plasma.
  • fermion: lattice field theory
  • gauge field theory: SU(3)
  • flavor: 4
  • finite temperature
  • fermion: correlation function
  • quantum number
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • quark: weak interaction
  • numerical calculations: Monte Carlo