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The Gluon Propagator at High Temperature

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We study the gluon propagator in Landau gauge in the deconfined phase of SU(2)SU(2) gauge theory. From the long-distance behaviour of correlation functions of temporal and spatial components of the gauge fields we extract electric (mem_e) and magnetic (mmm_m) screening masses. For temperatures larger than twice TcT_c we find no additional temperature dependence in me(T)/Tm_e(T)/T, while mm(T)/Tm_m(T)/T drops with increasing temperature. The decrease is consistent with the expected behaviour, mm(T)g2(T)Tm_m(T) \sim g^2(T)T. We find me(T)=2.484(52)Tm_e(T) = 2.484(52)T and mm(T)=0.466(15)g2(T)Tm_m(T) = 0.466(15) g^2(T) T.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9505016,
  title  = {The Gluon Propagator at High Temperature},
  author = {Urs M. Heller and ; Frithjof Karsch and Joern Rank},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9505016},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, TEX-file, 5 PS-figure

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