The Spatial String Tension and the Nonperturbative Debye Mass from the Field Correlator Method

Abstract

The phenomenon of the almost linear growth of the square root of spatial string tension $$\sqrt{\sigma_{s}(T)}=c_{\sigma}g^{2}T$$ and of the Debye mass $$m_{D}(T)$$ was found both in lattice and in theory, based on the Field Correlator Method (FCM). In the latter the string tension (both spatial and colorelectric) is expressed as an integral of the two gluon Green’s function calculated with the same string tension: $$\sigma=\int G^{(2g)}_{\sigma}$$ . This relation allows to check the self-consistency of the theory and at high $$T$$ it allows also to calculate $$c_{\sigma}$$ and hence $$\sigma_{s}$$ . We calculate below in the paper the corresponding coefficients $$c_{\sigma}$$ and $$c_{D}$$ numerically in the FCM method and compare the results with lattice data finding a good agreement. This justifies the use of the FCM in the space-like region and in high- $$T$$ thermodynamics without extra parameters.