String breaking by dynamical fermions in three-dimensional lattice QCD - art. no. 034506.

The first observation is made of hadronic string breaking due to dynamical fermions in zero temperature lattice QCD. The simulations are done for SU(2 ) color in three dimensions, with two flavors of staggered fermions. The re sults have clear implications, for the large scale simulations that are bei ng done to search (so far, without success) for string breaking in four-dim ensional QCD. In particular, string breaking is readily observed using only Wilson loops to excite a static quark-antiquark pair. Improved actions on coarse lattices are used, providing an extremely efficient means to access the quark separations and propagation times at which string breaking occurs . [S0556-2821(99)05315-1].