Volume 334 - The 36th Annual International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (LATTICE2018) - Hadron Spectroscopy and Interactions
String breaking with 2+1 dynamical fermions using the stochastic LapH method
V. Koch,* J. Bulava, B. Hörz, F. Knechtli, G. Moir, C. Morningstar, M. Peardon
*corresponding author
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Published on: May 29, 2019
Abstract
The static potential $V(r)$ between a static quark and a static antiquark separated by a distance r is defined as the energy of the ground state of the system. As a consequence of confinement, the energy between the quark-antiquark pair is contained inside a color flux tube, which will break due to pair creation as soon as the energy is high enough. String breaking is manifested as a quantum-mechanical mixing phenomenon between different states containing two infinitely heavy quarks. We investigate this phenomenon with $N_\mathrm{f}=2+1$ flavors of dynamical fermions in the stochastic LapH framework, using an ensemble of gauge configurations generated through the CLS effort. We observe the effect of the third sea-quark flavor, which results in a second mixing-phenomenon.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.334.0053
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