The spatial string tension and its effects on screening correlators in a thermal QCD plasma

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Main Authors: Bala, Dibyendu, Kaczmarek, Olaf, Petreczky, Peter, Sharma, Sayantan, Tah, Swagatam
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author Bala, Dibyendu
Kaczmarek, Olaf
Petreczky, Peter
Sharma, Sayantan
Tah, Swagatam
author_facet Bala, Dibyendu
Kaczmarek, Olaf
Petreczky, Peter
Sharma, Sayantan
Tah, Swagatam
contents We calculate the spatial Wilson line correlator for 2+1 flavor QCD using highly improved staggered quark discretization for fermions and in quenched QCD for a wide range of temperatures, from the chiral crossover temperature $\mathrm{T_{pc}\simeq 156}$ MeV or the deconfinement temperature $\simeq 300$ MeV respectively, up to $2$ GeV. Extracting the spatial string tension for different lattice cut-offs and by performing a continuum extrapolation of this observable, we show that the soft (magnetic) gluons interact non-perturbatively even at temperatures $\gtrsim 1$ GeV. We provide incriminating evidences to demonstrate that dimensionally reduced effective theories can describe these soft quark and gluon quasi-particles for both quenched and $2+1$ flavor QCD, at temperatures $\mathrm{T\gtrsim 5T_{pc}}$. We also show for the first time the imprints of the non-perturbative pseudo-potential in the properties of mesonic screening masses for temperatures ranging from $0.8$-$164$ GeV in the quark-gluon plasma.
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spellingShingle The spatial string tension and its effects on screening correlators in a thermal QCD plasma
Bala, Dibyendu
Kaczmarek, Olaf
Petreczky, Peter
Sharma, Sayantan
Tah, Swagatam
High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
We calculate the spatial Wilson line correlator for 2+1 flavor QCD using highly improved staggered quark discretization for fermions and in quenched QCD for a wide range of temperatures, from the chiral crossover temperature $\mathrm{T_{pc}\simeq 156}$ MeV or the deconfinement temperature $\simeq 300$ MeV respectively, up to $2$ GeV. Extracting the spatial string tension for different lattice cut-offs and by performing a continuum extrapolation of this observable, we show that the soft (magnetic) gluons interact non-perturbatively even at temperatures $\gtrsim 1$ GeV. We provide incriminating evidences to demonstrate that dimensionally reduced effective theories can describe these soft quark and gluon quasi-particles for both quenched and $2+1$ flavor QCD, at temperatures $\mathrm{T\gtrsim 5T_{pc}}$. We also show for the first time the imprints of the non-perturbative pseudo-potential in the properties of mesonic screening masses for temperatures ranging from $0.8$-$164$ GeV in the quark-gluon plasma.
title The spatial string tension and its effects on screening correlators in a thermal QCD plasma
topic High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17943