English

Partial deconfinement in QCD at $N=3$ and $N=\infty$

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2023-12-29 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We describe how the general mechanism of partial deconfinement applies to large-NN QCD and the partially-deconfined phase inevitably appears between completely-confined and completely-deconfined phases. Furthermore, we propose how the partial deconfinement can be observed in the real-world QCD with SU(3) gauge group. We propose the relationship between the behaviors of the Polyakov loop and other quantities. We test our proposal against lattice simulation data and find a nontrivial matching.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2312.17136,
  title  = {Partial deconfinement in QCD at $N=3$ and $N=\infty$},
  author = {Masanori Hanada and Hiroki Ohata and Hidehiko Shimada and Hiromasa Watanabe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.17136},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

7 pages. 40th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - Lattice2023

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