TY - CONF A1 - Fromm, Michael A1 - Langelage, Jens A1 - Philipsen, Owe A1 - Forcrand, Philippe de A1 - Unger, Wolfgang A1 - Miura, Kohtaroh T1 - Towards corrections to the strong coupling limit of staggered lattice QCD : the XXIX International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - Lattice 2011, July 10 - 16, 2011, Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, California T2 - Proceedings of Science N2 - We report on the first steps of an ongoing project to add gauge observables and gauge corrections to the well-studied strong coupling limit of staggered lattice QCD, which has been shown earlier to be amenable to numerical simulations by the worm algorithm in the chiral limit and at finite density. Here we show how to evaluate the expectation value of the Polyakov loop in the framework of the strong coupling limit at finite temperature, allowing to study confinement properties along with those of chiral symmetry breaking. We find the Polyakov loop to rise smoothly, thus signalling deconfinement. The non-analytic nature of the chiral phase transition is reflected in the derivative of the Polyakov loop. We also discuss how to construct an effective theory for non-zero lattice coupling, which is valid to O(b). Y1 - 2011 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/27289 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-272897 SN - 1824-8039 VL - 2011 IS - (Lattice 2011)212 PB - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, SISSA CY - Trieste ER -