Thermal phase transition in QCD
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-02-03 v2
Abstract
We give a review of modern theoretical understanding of the problem of thermal phase transition in . The existence or non-existence of such transition depends on the nature of the gauge group, the number of light quark flavors , and on the value of quark masses. Numerical lattice measurements indicate that the phase transition {\it does} not occur for the experimentally observed values of quark masses.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9508305,
title = {Thermal phase transition in QCD},
author = {A. Smilga},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9508305},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Lecture at the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Varenna, July, 1995. 19 pages LaTeX, 3 ps files for figures in a separate uu-file. Minor stylistic revisions