TY - JOUR
T1 - Static ¯Q pair free energy and screening masses from correlators of Polyakov loops
T2 - continuum extrapolated lattice results at the QCD physical point
AU - Borsányi, Szabolcs
AU - Fodor, Zoltán
AU - Katz, Sándor D.
AU - Pásztor, Attila
AU - Szabó, Kálmán K.
AU - Török, Csaba
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, The Author(s).
PY - 2015/4/1
Y1 - 2015/4/1
N2 - Abstract: We study the correlators of Polyakov loops, and the corresponding gauge invariant free energy of a static quark-antiquark pair in 2+1 flavor QCD at finite temperature. Our simulations were carried out on Nt = 6, 8, 10, 12, 16 lattices using a Symanzik improved gauge action and a stout improved staggered action with physical quark masses. The free energies calculated from the Polyakov loop correlators are extrapolated to the continuum limit. For the free energies we use a two step renormalization procedure that only uses data at finite temperature. We also measure correlators with definite Euclidean time reversal and charge conjugation symmetry to extract two different screening masses, one in the magnetic, and one in the electric sector, to distinguish two different correlation lengths in the full Polyakov loop correlator.
AB - Abstract: We study the correlators of Polyakov loops, and the corresponding gauge invariant free energy of a static quark-antiquark pair in 2+1 flavor QCD at finite temperature. Our simulations were carried out on Nt = 6, 8, 10, 12, 16 lattices using a Symanzik improved gauge action and a stout improved staggered action with physical quark masses. The free energies calculated from the Polyakov loop correlators are extrapolated to the continuum limit. For the free energies we use a two step renormalization procedure that only uses data at finite temperature. We also measure correlators with definite Euclidean time reversal and charge conjugation symmetry to extract two different screening masses, one in the magnetic, and one in the electric sector, to distinguish two different correlation lengths in the full Polyakov loop correlator.
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U2 - 10.1007/JHEP04(2015)138
DO - 10.1007/JHEP04(2015)138
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84946186619
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2015
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 4
ER -