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Thermal monopole condensation in QCD with physical quark masses

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2021-07-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Thermal monopoles, identified after Abelian projection as magnetic currents wrapping non-trivially around the thermal circle, are studied in Nf=2+1N_f = 2+1 QCD at the physical point. The distribution in the number of wrappings, which in pure gauge theories points to a condensation temperature coinciding with deconfinement, points in this case to around 275 MeV, almost twice the QCD crossover temperature TcT_c; similar indications emerge looking for the formation of a percolating current cluster. The possible relation with other non-perturbative phenomena observed above TcT_c is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2107.02745,
  title  = {Thermal monopole condensation in QCD with physical quark masses},
  author = {Marco Cardinali and Massimo D'Elia and Andrea Pasqui},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.02745},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures. Fig. 4 has been updated. References added