English

High-T QCD and dimensional reduction: measuring the Debye mass

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

We study the high-temperature phase of SU(2) and SU(3) QCD using lattice simulations of an effective 3-dimensional SU(N) + adjoint Higgs -theory, obtained through dimensional reduction. We investigate the phase diagram of the 3D theory, and find that the high-T QCD phase corresponds to the metastable symmetric phase of the 3D theory. We measure the Debye screening mass m_D with gauge invariant operators; in particular we determine the O(g^2) and O(g^3) corrections to m_D. The corrections are seen to be large, modifying the standard power-counting hierarchy in high temperature QCD.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9709024,
  title  = {High-T QCD and dimensional reduction: measuring the Debye mass},
  author = {K. Kajantie and M. Laine and J. Peisa and A. Rajantie and K. Rummukainen and M. Shaposhnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9709024},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

3 pages, Latex, 3 figures. Presented by K. Rummukainen at Lattice '97

R2 v1 2026-07-22T13:21:56.188Z