Flux-tube structure in finite temperature QCD
We present a study of the structure of the chromoelectrical field created by a static quark-antiquark pair in lattice QCD with 2+1 flavours of dynamical quarks, where the quark masses are set to their physical values. The analysis covers a wide range of temperatures both above and below the chiral crossover, and explores varying quark-antiquark distances, with the aim of identifying signals of deconfinement and string breaking in the field structure. To this end we apply the zero-curl perturbative field subtraction method, developed in our earlier studies of pure gauge SU(3) theory and of full QCD at zero temperature.
Authors
- M. Baker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8396-1450)
- L. Cosmai
- Alessandro Papa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8984-3036)
- Paolo Cea (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5267-1461)
- V. Chelnokov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7757-4254)
Institutions
- Goethe University Frankfurt (DE)
- University of Washington (US)
- Azienda Ospedaliera di Cosenza (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari (IT)
- University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory (US)
- University of Calabria (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of subatomic particles and cosmology.
- Published
- 2025-12-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspc.2025.100280
- Primary Topic
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00