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Free Energy of a Hot Quark-Gluon Plasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Thermal (Th-)QCD properties appear to disagree with lattice (L-)QCD results, which suggests that Th-QCD does not have a valid perturbative expansion. However, we reproduce L-QCD using the first order αs\alpha_s corrections in Th-QCD.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0004016,
  title  = {Free Energy of a Hot Quark-Gluon Plasma},
  author = {Salah Hamieh and Jean Letessier and Johann Rafelski and Martin Schroedter and Ahmed Tounsi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0004016},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

One page comment (incl. 2 figures); v3 replaces eqs with figure