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Starting with the modified AdS/QCD metric developed in Ref.[1] we use the Nambu-Goto action to obtain the free energy of a quark-antiquark pair at T<Tc, for which we show that the effective string tension goes to zero at Tc=154MeV.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Veshgini , E. Megias , J. Nian , H. J. Pirner

We present results of a lattice calculation of tetraquark states with quark contents $q_1q_2\bar{Q}\bar{Q}, \, q_1,q_2 \subset u,d,s,c$ and $Q \equiv b,c$ in both spin zero ($J=0$) and spin one ($J=1$) sectors. These calculations are…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-02-27 Parikshit Junnarkar , Nilmani Mathur , M Padmanath

We study the phase diagram of quark matter at finite temperature (T) and finite chemical potential (mu) in the strong coupling limit of lattice QCD for color SU(3). We derive an analytical expression of the effective free energy as a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Kawamoto , K. Miura , A. Ohnishi , T. Ohnuma

Understanding the interactions between quark-antiquark pairs is essential for elucidating quark confinement within the framework of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). This study investigates the field distribution patterns that arise between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-05 Wei Kou , Xurong Chen

String breaking by dynamical quarks in three-dimensional lattice QCD is analyzed through measurements of the potential and the local color-electric field strength generated by a static quark-antiquark pair. Simulations were done for…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 Howard D. Trottier , Kit Yan Wong

We investigate the interaction between a heavy quark-antiquark pair in color octet configuration in gluon plasma. We calculate nonperturbatively an effective thermal potential for such a pair through the study of the correlation function of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-01-27 Dibyendu Bala , Saumen Datta

We report on a lattice investigation of heavy quark diffusion within pure SU(3) plasma above the deconfinement transition, with the quarks treated to leading order in the heavy mass expansion. Using a multilevel algorithm, several volumes…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-03-19 A. Francis , O. Kaczmarek , M. Laine , J. Langelage

We study correlation functions of spatially separated static quark-antiquark pairs in (2+1)-flavor QCD in order to investigate onset and nature of color screening at high temperatures. We perform lattice calculations in a wide temperature…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-01-23 TUMQCD collaboration , Alexei Bazavov , Nora Brambilla , Peter Petreczky , Antonio Vairo , Johannes Heinrich Weber

We calculate the Equation of State at high temperatures in 2+1 flavor QCD using the highly improved staggered quark action. We study the lattice spacing dependence of the pressure at high temperatures using lattices with temporal extent…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-03-26 A. Bazavov , P. Petreczky , J. H. Weber

We calculate the quark contribution to the free energy of a hot quark-gluon plasma to two-loop order using hard-thermal-loop (HTL) perturbation theory. All ultraviolet divergences can be absorbed into renormalizations of the vacuum energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jens O. Andersen , Emmanuel Petitgirard , Michael Strickland

Heavy quarks and quarkonia are versatile probes of the transport properties of the hot QCD medium produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions (URHICs). A robust description of heavy-flavor transport coefficients requires a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-12 Biaogang Wu , Zhanduo Tang , Ralf Rapp

Hadrons, composed of quarks and gluons bound by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), traditionally classified as baryons (three quarks) and mesons (quark-antiquark pairs). Nothing in the theory of QCD stands against the existence of exotic hadrons…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-05-02 Bhabani Sankar Tripathy , Nilmani Mathur , M. Padmanath

We have attempted to build first some simplified model to map the interaction of quarks and gluons, which can be contained by their thermodynamical quantity like entropy density, obtained from calculation of lattice quantum chromo dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Sarthak Satapathy , Souvik Paul , Ankit Anand , Ranjesh Kumar , Sabyasachi Ghosh

We perform the first study about the heavy-heavy-light quark potential in lattice QCD and a potential model. We find that the inter-two-quark confining force is reduced by valence quark motional effects compared to the string tension.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-14 Arata Yamamoto , Hideo Suganuma , Hideaki Iida

In a QCD-like strongly coupled gauge theory at large N_c, using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we find that heavy quark deconfinement is accompanied by a coherent condensation of higher meson resonances. This is revealed in non-equilibrium…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Koji Hashimoto , Shunichiro Kinoshita , Keiju Murata , Takashi Oka

QCD predicts that the interactions between quarks and gluons change from a confining to a screened Yukawa form above a critical temperature $T_c\sim 150$ MeV. In this talk, I review some of the key observables in heavy ion reactions which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Miklos Gyulassy

There is little doubt that Quantumchromodynamics (QCD) is the theory which describes strong interaction physics. Lattice gauge simulations of QCD predict that in the $\mu,T$ plane there is a line where a transition from confined hadronic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Aichelin , H. Petersen , S. Vogel , M. Bleicher

The transition temperature ($T_c$) of QCD is determined by Symanzik improved gauge and stout-link improved staggered fermionic lattice simulations. We use physical masses both for the light quarks ($m_{ud}$) and for the strange quark…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Aoki , Z. Fodor , S. D. Katz , K. K. Szabo

Lattice-QCD simulations and theoretical arguments hint at the existence of an intermediate phase of strongly interacting matter between a confined hadron gas and a deconfined Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). We qualitatively and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-06 Yuki Fujimoto , Kenji Fukushima , Yoshimasa Hidaka , Larry McLerran

We discuss the thermodynamics of gluons in the background of static quark sources. In order to do so we formulate the quenched limit of QCD at non-zero baryon number. A first numerical analysis of this system shows that it undergoes a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Engels , O. Kaczmarek , F. Karsch , E. Laermann