Chasing electric flux in hot QCD

✍ Scribed by Y. Schröder

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 242 KB
• Volume: 820
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2009.01.040

✦ Synopsis

In this talk, I present the status of attempts to analyze the behavior of the so-called spatial 't Hooft loop, which can be taken as an order parameter for the deconfinement phase transition in pure SU(N ) gauge theory. While lattice data show a strikingly universal scaling of extracted k-string tensions for various values of k and N , the analytic approach to these observables might need some refinement.