Bacilieri, P.Remiddi, E.Todesco, G.M.Bernashchi, M.Cabasino, S.Cabibbo, N.Fernández Pérez, Luis AntonioMarinari, E.Paolucci, P.Parisi, G.Salina, G.Tarancón, A.Coppola, F.Lombardo, M.P.Simeone, E.Tripiccione, R,Fiorentini, G.Lai, A.Marchesini, P.A.Marzano, F.2023-06-202023-06-201988-10-030031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.61.1545https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/60186© 1988 American Physical Society. We acknowledge useful discussions with T. Banks, U. Marini Bettolo, R. Medina, S. Shenker, and A. Ukawa.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.engjournal articlehttp://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.1545https://journals.aps.orgopen access53Física-Modelos matemáticos