QCD flux tubes across the deconfinement phase transition

TL;DR

This paper investigates how the chromoelectric flux tube between a static quark-antiquark pair behaves across the deconfinement phase transition at various distances and temperatures, providing preliminary insights into QCD confinement dynamics.

Contribution

It offers new preliminary results on the behavior of QCD flux tubes across the deconfinement transition at different distances and temperatures.

Findings

Flux tube behavior changes across the phase transition.

Preliminary results up to 1.33 fm and 1.5 T_c.

Insights into confinement dynamics near deconfinement.

Abstract

We study the behavior across the deconfinement phase transition of the chromoelectric flux tube generated by a static quark and a static antiquark for several distances between them. We present preliminary results for distances up to 1.33 fm and temperatures up to $1.5 T_c$.