Effective string picture for confinement at finite temperature: Theoretical predictions and high precision numerical results

Sep, 2003
3 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B Proc.Suppl. 129 (2004) 593-595
e-Print:
Report number:
  • DESY-03-122,
  • DFTT-17-2003

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Abstract:
The effective string picture of confinement is used to derive theoretical predictions for the interquark potential at finite temperature. At short distances, the leading string correction to the linear confining potential between a heavy quark-antiquark pair is the Luscher term''. We assume a Nambu--Goto effective string action, and work out subleading contributions in an analytical way. We discuss the contribution given by a possible ``boundary term'' in the effective action, comparing these predictions with results from simulations of lattice Z2Z_2 gauge theory in three dimensions, obtained with an algorithm which exploits the duality of the Z2Z_2 gauge model with the Ising spin model.
Note:
  • Lattice2003(nonzero), 3 pages, 2 figures
  • talk: Tsukuba 2003/07/15
  • confinement
  • finite temperature
  • quark antiquark: potential
  • string model: effective action
  • gauge field theory: Z(2)
  • dimension: 3
  • duality
  • numerical calculations: Monte Carlo