Abstract
We consider the behavior of lattice models of quark confinement at high temperature. We find that confinement is strictly a low-temperature phenomenon. At high temperatures a transition to a plasma-like phase occurs. In this phase free gluons form a plasma which Debye screens the quarks.
- Received 16 January 1978
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.20.2610
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