Dimensionally regularized Polyakov loop correlators in hot QCD

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2010)054zbMATH Open1269.81189arXiv0911.3480OpenAlexW2012395564MaRDI QIDQ359064FDOQ359064

Authors: Y. Burnier, M. Vepsäläinen, M. Laine 

Publication date: 9 August 2013

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A popular observable in finite-temperature lattice QCD is the so-called singlet quark-antiquark free energy, conventionally defined in Coulomb gauge. In an effort to interpret the existing numerical data on this observable, we compute it at order O(alpha_s^2) in continuum, and analyze the result at various distance scales. At short distances (r << 1/pi T) the behaviour matches that of the gauge-independent zero-temperature potential; on the other hand at large distances (r >> 1/pi T) the singlet free energy appears to have a gauge-fixing related power-law tail. At infinite distance the result again becomes physical in the sense that it goes over to a gauge-independent disconnected contribution, the square of the expectation value of the trace of the Polyakov loop; we recompute this quantity at O(alpha_s^2), finding for pure SU(Nc) a different non-logarithmic term than in previous literature, and adding for full QCD the quark contribution. We also discuss the value of the singlet free energy in a general covariant gauge, as well as the behaviour of the cyclic Wilson loop that is obtained if the singlet free energy is made gauge-independent by inserting straight spacelike Wilson lines into the observable. Comparisons with lattice data are carried out where possible.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3480

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zbMATH Keywords

lattice QCDNLO computationsthermal field theoryheavy quark physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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• Short distance physics with heavy quark potentials
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