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Title: Quark propagators in confinement and deconfinement phases

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
;  [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Department of Physics, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8581 (Japan)
  2. Department of Physics, Saga University, 1 Honjyo-cho, Saga, 840-8502 (Japan)
  3. Information Media Center, Hiroshima University, 1-7-1 Kagami-yama, Higashi-hiroshima, 739-8521 (Japan)
  4. Integrated Information Center, Kochi University, 2-5-1, Akebono-cho, Kochi, 780-8520 (Japan)

We study quark propagators near the confinement/deconfinement phase transition temperature in quenched-lattice simulation of QCD. We find that there is no qualitative change for the quark propagators in both phases. In the confinement phase, those effective quark masses in units of the critical temperature behave as a constant as a function of the temperature, while above the critical temperature, the value of the effective quark mass drops to circa half value.

OSTI ID:
21409965
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 81, Issue 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.094506; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English