Published September 1, 2004 | Version v1
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Free energy of a static quark-antiquark pair and the renormalized Polyakov loop in three flavor QCD

  • 1. Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 (United States)

Description

We study the free energy of a static quark-antiquark (QQ) pair at finite temperature in three flavor QCD with degenerate quark masses using Nτ=4 and 6 lattices with Asqtad staggered fermion action. The static free energy was calculated for different values of the quark mass and the entropy contribution at large distances has been extracted. We also calculate the renormalized Polyakov loop following the approach by Kaczmarek et al

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
70
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 054503-054503.8
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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