Chasing electric flux in hot QCD
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
In this talk, I present the status of attempts to analyze the behavior of the so-called spatial 't Hooft loop, which can be taken as an order parameter for the deconfinement phase transition in pure SU(N) gauge theory. While lattice data show a strikingly universal scaling of extracted k-string tensions for various values of k and N, the analytic approach to these observables might need some refinement.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.2718,
title = {Chasing electric flux in hot QCD},
author = {Y. Schroder},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.2718},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages; to appear in the Proceedings of SEWM08, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 26-29, 2008