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Does the QCD plasma contain propagating gluons?

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-11-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Comparison of two appropriately chosen screening masses of colour singlet operators in the pure glue QCD plasma indicates that at sufficiently high temperature it contains a weakly-interacting massive quasi-particle with the quantum numbers of the electric gluon. Still in the deconfined phase, but closer to T_c, the same mass ratio is similar to that at zero temperature, indicating that the propagating modes are more glueball-like, albeit with a lower scale for the masses. We observe a continuity between these two regimes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0208001,
  title  = {Does the QCD plasma contain propagating gluons?},
  author = {Saumen Datta and Sourendu Gupta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0208001},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures

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