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Non-Debye Screening in Finite Temperature QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v4

Abstract

We study the non-abelian, gauge invariant, screening potential between two charges in a quark-gluon plasma. Using Braaten and Pisarski resummed perturbation theory in temporal axial gauge, we find a repulsive power screened potential which behaves as 1/r6\sim 1/r^6 at large distance. This questions either the physical meaning of the Debye mass or the known pragmatic treatment of the temporal axial gauge propagator.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9406276,
  title  = {Non-Debye Screening in Finite Temperature QCD},
  author = {S. Peigné and S. M. H. Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9406276},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

LPTHE-Orsay 94/46.12 pages (latex), (Due to the appearance of more recent related works, we changed our conclusion somewhat.)

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