Following the original idea of Debye, we define and extract a gauge-invariant screening mass from the complex static in-medium heavy-quark potential V-Q (Q) over bar, recently obtained from lattice QCD. To this end we derive a formula using concepts from both effective-and classical field theories that faithfully reproduces both the screened real-and the imaginary part of the lattice potential with a single temperature dependent fit parameter m(D)(T). Using values of the real part of V-Q (Q) over bar in a gluonic medium, we obtain Debye masses compatible with HTL perturbation theory. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Daniel Garcia Figueroa, Adrien Florio, Wessel Valkenburg, Francisco Torrenti
Daniel Garcia Figueroa, Adrien Florio, Wessel Valkenburg, Francisco Torrenti