Published March 1999 | Version v1
Journal article

String breaking in lattice QCD

Description

The separation of a heavy quark and antiquark pair leads to the formation of a tube of flux, or string, which should break in the presence of light quark-antiquark pairs. This expected zero temperature phenomenon has proven elusive in simulations of lattice QCD. We present simulation results that show that the string does break in the confining phase at nonzero temperature

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Identifiers

PII
S0920563299851007;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
73
Journal Issue
1-3
Journal Page Range
p. 447-449
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE7

Conference

Title
16. international symposium on lattice field theory
Dates
13-18 Jul 1998
Place
Boulder, CO (United States)

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Copyright (c) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.