Open AccessQuark confinement and number of flavors in strong coupling lattice QCD
Author(s) -
Y. Iwasaki,
K. Kanaya,
S. Sakai,
T. Yoshié
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
physical review letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.688
H-Index - 673
eISSN - 1079-7114
pISSN - 0031-9007
DOI - 10.1103/physrevlett.69.21
Subject(s) - physics , quark , particle physics , lattice qcd , fermion , up quark , quantum chromodynamics , color confinement , down quark , lattice (music) , bottom quark , top quark , acoustics
The problem of whether there is a constraint on the number of flavors for quark confinement in QCD is numerically investigated on a lattice with Wilson fermions as quarks. It is shown that even in the strong coupling limit, when the number of flavors exceeds 7, quarks are not confined and chiral symmetry is not spontaneously broken for light quarks
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