https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12472-8
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Unveiling SU(3) flux tubes at nonzero temperature: electric fields and magnetic currents
1
Department of Physics, University of Washington, 98105, Seattle, WA, USA
2
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe Universität, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
3
INFN-Sezione di Bari, 70126, Bari, Italy
4
Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, 87036, Cosenza, Italy
5
INFN-Gruppo collegato di Cosenza, Arcavacata di Rende, 87036, Cosenza, Italy
b
chelnokov@itp.uni-frankfurt.de
Received:
26
October
2023
Accepted:
22
January
2024
Published online:
12
February
2024
We report on the results of measuring the chromoelectric fields in a flux tube created by a static quark-antiquark pair in finite-temperature SU(3) gauge theory. Below the deconfinement temperature the field behavior is similar to the zero-temperature case. Above the deconfinement temperature the field shape remains the same, but the field values drop when the distance between the quark and antiquark increases, thus showing the disappearance of the confining potential.
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