Lattice QCD at non-zero baryon number
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We discuss the quenched limit of lattice QCD at non-zero baryon number density. We find evidence for a mixed phase that becomes broader with increasing baryon number. Although the action is explicitly Z(3) symmetric the Polyakov loop expectation value becomes non-zero already in the low temperature phase. It indicates that the heavy quark potential stays finite at large distances, i.e. the string between static quarks breaks at non-zero baryon number density already in the hadronic phase. This behaviour is validated by calculating the heavy quark potential using Polyakov loop correlations.
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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9905022,
title = {Lattice QCD at non-zero baryon number},
author = {O. Kaczmarek and with J. Engels and F. Karsch and E. Laermann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9905022},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6 pages, 6 figures, talk presented at ``Understanding Deconfinement in QCD'', ECT* Trento, March 1999