Open AccessLattice models of quark confinement at high temperature
Author(s) -
Leonard Susskind
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
physical review. d. particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/physical review. d. particles and fields
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1089-4918
pISSN - 0556-2821
DOI - 10.1103/physrevd.20.2610
Subject(s) - quark–gluon plasma , color confinement , plasma , condensed matter physics , physics , lattice (music) , phase transition , debye , debye model , quark , particle physics , nuclear physics , acoustics
We consider the behavior of lattice models of quark confinement at high temperature. We find that confinement is strictly a low-temperature phenomenon. At high temperatures a transition to a plasma-like phase occurs. In this phase free gluons form a plasma which Debye screens the quarks.
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