2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/38460The crossing from a static quark-antiquark system to a system of two static-light mesons when the separation of the static quarks is increased is calculated in zero-temperature lattice QCD. The mixing of these two states is extracted from the lattice operators. We also discuss the breaking of an excited string of a hybrid meson.4 pages, 2 eps figuresHigh Energy Physics - LatticeHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyString breaking in zero-temperature lattice QCDtext