Mesonic correlation lengths in high temperature QCD

Nov, 2003
24 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 02 (2004) 004
e-Print:
Report number:
  • BI-TP-2003-31,
  • HIP-2003-58-TH

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Abstract:
We consider spatial correlation lengths \xi for various QCD light quark bilinears at temperatures above a few hundred MeV. Some of the correlation lengths (such as that related to baryon density) coincide with what has been measured earlier on from glueball-like states: others do not couple to glueballs, and have a well-known perturbative leading-order expression as well as a computable next-to-leading-order correction. We determine the latter following analogies with the NRQCD effective theory, used for the study of heavy quarkonia at zero temperature: we find (for the quenched case) \xi^{-1} = 2 \pi T + 0.1408 g^2 T, and compare with lattice results. One manifestation of U_A(1) symmetry non-restoration is also pointed out.
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • temperature: high
  • meson: two-point function
  • correlation: length
  • glueball
  • quantum chromodynamics: nonrelativistic
  • effective Lagrangian
  • perturbation theory
  • lattice field theory
  • bibliography