[Submitted on 6 Jul 2021] (cross-list from hep-lat)
Thermal monopole condensation in QCD with physical quark masses
Marco Cardinali🇮🇹 · Massimo D'Elia🇮🇹 · Andrea Pasqui🇮🇹
Thermal monopoles, identified after Abelian projection as magnetic currents wrapping non-trivially around the thermal circle, are studied in QCD at the physical point. The distribution in the number of wrappings, which in pure gauge theories points to a condensation temperature coinciding with deconfinement, points in this case to around 275 MeV, almost twice the QCD crossover temperature ; similar indications emerge looking for the formation of a percolating current cluster. The possible relation with other non-perturbative phenomena observed above is discussed.
- Comments:
- 6 pages, 4 figures. Fig. 4 has been updated. References added
- Subjects:
- High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Theory (hep-th); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
- arXiv:
- 2107.02745 [pdf]