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Forces, fluxes and quasi-particles in hot QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

These lectures start with a brief overview of salient features of the critical region of hot QCD. The main emphasis is on the accurate description of static plasma observables by the well-known hierarchy of reduced actions combined with 3D simulations above T\sim 2T_c. A striking pattern emerges, put in perspective by completing the quasi-particle picture

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0308229,
  title  = {Forces, fluxes and quasi-particles in hot QCD},
  author = {Chris P. Korthals Altes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0308229},
  year   = {2007}
}

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57 pages, 13 figures. lectures given at Erice summerschool, September 2002, and Zakopane Summerschool, June 2003