%0 Journal Article
%A Bacilieri, P.
%A Remiddi, E.
%A Todesco, G.M.
%A Bernashchi, M.
%A Cabasino, S.
%A Cabibbo, N.
%A Fernández Pérez, Luis Antonio
%A Marinari, E.
%A Paolucci, P.
%A Parisi, G.
%A Salina, G.
%A Tarancón, A.
%A Coppola, F.
%A Lombardo, M.P.
%A Simeone, E.
%A Tripiccione, R,
%A Fiorentini, G.
%A Lai, A.
%A Marchesini, P.A.
%A Marzano, F.
%T Order of the deconfining phase transition in pure-gauge QCD
%D 1988
%@ 0031-9007
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/60186
%X We study the behavior of the string tension in the SU(3) lattice pure-gauge theory close to the deconfining critical point. We find very large correlation lengths, increasing with the lattice size. This result is strongly suggestive of a second-order phase transition, and excludes the presence of a strong first-order transition.
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