Adjoint torelons, and the persistence of color electric flux tubes in the deconfined phase

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2011-05-02

arxiv.org/abs/1105.0436v1

Phys.Rev.D84:014506,2011

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Lattice

6 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.84.014506

It is argued that the adjoint torelon loop, i.e. a Polyakov loop in the adjoint representation running in a spatial, rather than temporal, direction, is an observable which is sensitive to the presence of long color electric flux tubes at high temperatures. We show via lattice Monte Carlo simulations that this observable has a sharp peak at the deconfinement transition, remains much larger than the vacuum value for some range of $T>T_c$, and falls below the vacuum value for $T > 2T_c$. This result suggests that long electric flux tubes may persist for a finite range of temperatures past the deconfinement transition, and at some stage disappear, presumably melting into a plasma of gluons. As a side remark, we point out that our results at $T

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