Deconfinement through chiral transition in 2 flavour QCD

Authors
Digal, S Laermann, E Satz, H
Citation
S. Digal et al., Deconfinement through chiral transition in 2 flavour QCD, NUCL PH B-P, 94, 2001, pp. 389-392
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B-PROCEEDINGS SUPPLEMENTS
ISSN journal
09205632 → ACNP
Volume
94
Year of publication
2001
Pages
389 - 392
Database
ISI
SICI code
0920-5632(200103)94:<389:DTCTI2>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
We propose that in QCD with dynamical quarks, colour deconfinement occurs w hen an external field induced by the chiral condensate strongly aligns the Polyakov loop. This effect sets in at the chiral symmetry restoration tempe rature Tx and thus makes deconfinement and chiral symmetry restoration coin cide. The predicted singular behavior of Polyakov loop susceptibilities at T-chi is shown to be supported by finite temperature lattice calculations.