Linking the chiral and deconfinement phase transitions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice
Abstract
We show that the electric glueball becomes critical at the end-point of the deconfinement phase transition in finite temperature QCD. Based on this observation and existing lattice data, we argue that the chiral phase transition at a zero quark mass and the deconfinement phase transition at an infinite quark mass are continuously connected by the glueball-sigma mixing.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0307068,
title = {Linking the chiral and deconfinement phase transitions},
author = {Yoshitaka Hatta and Kenji Fukushima},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0307068},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, terminology corrected. To appear in Phys. Rev. D