Properties of the deconfining phase transition in SU(N) gauge theories
| dc.creator | Lucini, B. | |
| dc.creator | Teper, M. | |
| dc.creator | Wenger, U. | |
| dc.date | 2005-02-03 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:48:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:48:27Z | |
| dc.description | We extend our earlier investigation of the finite temperature deconfinement transition in SU(N) gauge theories, with the emphasis on what happens as N->oo. We calculate the latent heat in the continuum limit, and find the expected quadratic in N behaviour at large N. We confirm that the phase transition, which is second order for SU(2) and weakly first order for SU(3), becomes robustly first order for N>3 and strengthens as N increases. As an aside, we explain why the SU(2) specific heat shows no sign of any peak as T is varied across what is supposedly a second order phase transition. We calculate the effective string tension and electric gluon masses at T=Tc confirming the discontinuous nature of the transition for N>2. We explicitly show that the large-N `spatial' string tension does not vary with T for T<Tc and that it is discontinuous at T=Tc. For T>Tc it increases as T-squared to a good approximation, and the k-string tension ratios closely satisfy Casimir Scaling. Within very small errors, we find a single Tc at which all the k-strings deconfine, i.e. a step-by-step breaking of the relevant centre symmetry does not occur. We calculate the interface tension but are unable to distinguish between linear or quadratic in N variations, each of which can lead to a striking but different N=oo deconfinement scenario. We remark on the location of the bulk phase transition, which bounds the range of our large-N calculations on the strong coupling side, and within whose hysteresis some of our larger-N calculations are performed. | |
| dc.description | 50 pages, 14 figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0502003 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0502003 | |
| dc.identifier | JHEP0502:033,2005 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2005/02/033 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/183882 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Lattice | |
| dc.title | Properties of the deconfining phase transition in SU(N) gauge theories | |
| dc.type | text |