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Connecting Polyakov Loops to Hadrons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-17 v1

Abstract

The order parameter for the pure Yang-Mills phase transition is the Polyakov loop, which encodes the symmetries of the Z_N center of the SU(N) gauge group. The physical degrees of freedom of any asymptotically free gauge theory are hadronic states. Using the Yang-Mills trace anomaly and the exact Z_N symmetry we show that the transfer of information from the order parameter to hadrons is complete.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0310078,
  title  = {Connecting Polyakov Loops to Hadrons},
  author = {A. Mocsy and F. Sannino and K. Tuominen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0310078},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

To appear in the proceedings of the QCD@Work 2003-International Workshop on QCD, Conversano Italy, 14-18 June 2003