The chiral crossover, static-light and light-light meson spectra, and the deconfinement crossover

Abstract

We study the chiral crossover, the spectra of light-light and of static-light mesons and the deconfinement crossover at finite temperature T. Our framework is the confining and chiral invariant quark model, related to truncated Coulomb gauge QCD. Since we are dealing with light quarks, where the linear potential dominates the quark condensate and the spectrum, we only specialize in the linear confining potential for the quark-antiquark interaction. We utilize T dependent string tensions previously fitted from lattice QCD data, and a fit of previously computed dynamically generated constituent quark masses. We scan the T effects on the constituent quark mass, on the meson spectra and on the polyakov loop.

19 pages, 16 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the XLIX International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics, 24-28 January 2011, Bormio, Italy