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On emergent particles and stable neutral plasma balls in SU(2) Yang-Mills thermodynamics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-02-09 v3

Abstract

For a pure SU(2) Yang-Mills theory in 4D we revisit the spatial (3D), ball-like region of radius r0r_0, in its bulk subject to the pressureless, deconfining phase at T0=1.32TcT_0=1.32\,T_c where TcT_c denotes the critical temperature for the onset of the deconfining-preconfining phase transition. Such a region possesses of a finite energy density and represents the self-intersection of a figure-eight shaped center-vortex loop if a BPS monopole of core radius r052.4\sim \frac{r_0}{52.4}, isolated from its antimonopole by repulsion externally invoked through a transient shift of (anti)caloron holonomy (pair creation), is trapped therein. The entire soliton (vortex line plus region of self-intersection of mass m0m_0 containing the monopole) can be considered an excitation of the pressureless and energyless ground state of the confining phase. Correcting an earlier estimate of r0r_0, we show that the vortex-loop self-intersection region associates with the {\sl central part} of a(n) (anti)caloron and that this region carries one unit of electric U(1) charge via the (electric-magnetic dually interpreted) charge of the monopole. The monopole core quantum vibrates at a thermodynamically determined frequency ω0\omega_0 and is unresolved. For a deconfining-phase plasma oscillation about the zero-pressure background at T=T0T=T_0 we compute the lowest frequency Ω0\Omega_0 within a {\sl neutral} and homogeneous spatial ball (no trapped monopole) in dependence of its radius R0R_0. For R0=r0R_0=r_0 a comparison of Ω0\Omega_0 with ω0\omega_0 reveals that the neutral plasma oscillates much slower than the same plasma driven by the oscillation of a monopole core.

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@article{arxiv.2007.08460,
  title  = {On emergent particles and stable neutral plasma balls in SU(2) Yang-Mills thermodynamics},
  author = {Thierry Grandou and Ralf Hofmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.08460},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

11 pages, 1 Figure.The previous Introduction has been drastically streamlined, from 6 to 2 pages; @ extra references added, and small changes brought to the presentation of Section 2.3. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1809.08234