A gauge invariant Debye mass and the complex heavy-quark potential

Following the original idea of Debye, we define and extract a gauge-invariant screening mass from the complex static in-medium heavy-quark potential VQQ¯, recently obtained from lattice QCD. To this end we derive a formula using concepts from both effective- and classical field theories that faithfu...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yannis Burnier, Alexander Rothkopf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-02-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931500979X