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New nonperturbative approach to the Debye mass in hot QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-18 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The Debye mass m_D is computed nonperturbatively in the deconfined phase of QCD, where chromomagnetic confinement is known to be present. The latter defines m_D to be m_D=c_D\sqrt{\sigma_s}, where c_D \cong 2.06 and \sigma_s=\sigma_s(T) is the spatial string tension. The resulting magnitude of m_D(T) and temperature dependence are in good agreement with lattice calculations. Background perturbation theory expansion for m_D(T) is discussed in comparison to standard perturbative results and recent gauge-invariant definitions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0604004,
  title  = {New nonperturbative approach to the Debye mass in hot QCD},
  author = {N. O. Agasian and Yu. A. Simonov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0604004},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

14 pages, 4 figures; new figures and discussion added; to appear in Phys.Lett.B