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Sequential charmonium dissociation
Finite temperature lattice QCD indicates that the charmonium ground state
J/psi can survive in a quark-gluon plasma up to 1.5 T_c or more, while the
excited states chi_c and psi-prime are dissociated just above T_c. We assume
that the chi_c suffers the same form of suppression as that observed for the
psi-prime in SPS experiments, and that the directly produced J/psi is
unaffected at presently available energy densities. This provides a
parameter-free description of J/psi and psi-prime suppression which agrees
quite well with that observed in SPS and RHIC data.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figure
Glueball enhancement by color de-confinement
High energy heavy ion collisions lead to the formation of a strong coupling
de-confined phase in which the lightest glueballs are numerous and stable. We
analyze how their properties manifest themselves in experimental spectra and
show that they provide a good signature for color de-confinement.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure
Topological transitions in the euclidean 2d U(1)-Higgs model
The two-dimensional U(1)-gauged Higgs model is studied on an euclidean
lattice of size , where the temperature is of the
order of the sphaleron mass. The simulation parameters are taken from zero
temperature results. By comparison with classical and semiclassical results I
discuss, whether the sphaleron transition rate can be extracted from the
behavior of the Chern-Simons number and from the formation of vortices in an
euclidean simulation at high temperatures.Comment: Talk presented at LATTICE96(topology), 3 pages, latex2e, 3 postscript
figures, uses packages epsfig and espcrc
Eigenvalue distribution of the Dirac operator at finite temperature with (2+1)-flavor dynamical quarks using the HISQ action
We report on the behavior of the eigenvalue distribution of the Dirac
operator in (2+1)-flavor QCD at finite temperature, using the HISQ action. We
calculate the eigenvalue density at several values of the temperature close to
the pseudocritical temperature. For this study we use gauge field
configurations generated on lattices of size with two light
quark masses corresponding to pion masses of about 160 and 115 MeV. We find
that the eigenvalue density below receives large contributions from
near-zero modes which become smaller as the temperature increases or the light
quark mass decreases. Moreover we find no clear evidence for a gap in the
eigenvalue density up to 1.1. We also analyze the eigenvalue density near
where it appears to show a power-law behavior consistent with what is
expected in the critical region near the second order chiral symmetry restoring
phase transition in the massless limit.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, talk presented at the XXIX International
Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 10-16 2011, Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe,
California, US
String Breaking and Quarkonium Dissociation at Finite Temperatures
Recent lattice studies of string breaking in QCD with dynamical quarks
determine the in-medium temperature dependence of the heavy quark potential.
Comparing this to the binding energies of different quarkonium states, we check
if these can decay into open charm/beauty in a confined hadronic medium. Our
studies indicate in particular that the chi_c and the psi dissociate into open
charm below the deconfinement point.Comment: 8 pages LaTeX, 4 figure
Deconfinement Through Chiral Transition In 2 Flavour QCD
We propose that in QCD with dynamical quarks, colour deconfinement occurs
when an external field induced by the chiral condensate strongly aligns the
Polyakov loop. This effect sets in at the chiral symmetry restoration
temperature and thus makes deconfinement and chiral symmetry
restoration coincide. The predicted singular behavior of Polyakov loop
susceptibilities at is shown to be supported by finite temperature
lattice calculations.Comment: Talk given at Lattice 2000 (Finite Temperature), 4 pages, 6
EPS-figure
The scalar glueball spectrum
We discuss scenarios for scalar glueballs using arguments based on sum rules,
spectral decomposition, the approximation, the scales of the
strong interaction and the topology of the flux tubes. We analyze the
phenomenological support of those scenarios and their observational
implications. Our investigations hint a rich low lying glueball spectrum.Comment: 11 pages: New title, figure, table and a more detailed comparison
with experiment
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