Static potential and local color fields in unquenched lattice QCD$_3$

Details Static potential and local color fields in unquenched lattice QCD$_3$ Static potential and local color fields in unquenched lattice QCD$_3$

2004-08-18

arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0408028v1

Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 054505

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Lattice

7 pages, 8 figure files

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.72.054505

String breaking by dynamical quarks in three-dimensional lattice QCD is analyzed through measurements of the potential and the local color-electric field strength generated by a static quark-antiquark pair. Simulations were done for unquenched SU(2) color with two flavors of staggered light quarks. An improved gluon action was used, which allows simulations to be done on coarse lattices, providing an extremely efficient means to access the large quark separations and long propagation times at which string breaking occurs. The static sources were generated using Wilson loop operators, hence no light valence quarks are present in the resulting trial states. Results give unambiguous evidence of string breaking. First the static potential is shown to saturate at twice the heavy-light meson mass at large separations. Then it is demonstrated that the local color-electric field strength in the region between the heavy quarks tends towards vacuum values at large separations, the first time that this most graphic effect of quark vacuum polarization on the confining flux-tube has been realized in lattice QCD. Implications of these results for unquenched simulations of four-dimensional QCD are drawn.

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