2021/07/06 by Marco Cardinali, Cardinali, Marco, Massimo D’Elia +3 · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Superconducting Materials and Applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2107.02745
openalex publication_date 2021/07/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Thermal monopoles, identified after Abelian projection as magnetic currents wrapping non-trivially around the thermal circle, are studied in Nf = 2+1 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 Tc; similar indications emerge looking for the formation of a percolating current cluster. The possible relation with other non-perturbative phenomena observed above Tc is discussed.