Polyakov Loops versus Hadronic States
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
The order parameter for the pure Yang-Mills phase transition is the Polyakov loop which encodes the symmetries of the Z_N center of the SU(N) gauge group. On the other side the physical degrees of freedom of any asymptotically free gauge theory are hadronic states. Using the Yang-Mills trace anomaly and the exact Z_N symmetry we construct a model able to communicate to the hadrons the information carried by the order parameter.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0204174,
title = {Polyakov Loops versus Hadronic States},
author = {Francesco Sannino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0204174},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
RevTex4 2-col., 6 pages, 2 figures. Typos fixed and added a paragraph in the conclusions