Variational approach to Yang-Mills theory at finite temperatures
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-11-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We study the finite-temperature phase of a gluon ensemble in a variational approximation to QCD in the Coulomb gauge. We derive and numerically solve the underlying Dyson-Schwinger equations up to one-loop order. Assuming the subcritical solution at T=0, we find a sharp transition in the infrared value of the gluon energy at a critical temperature.
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@article{arxiv.1107.3389,
title = {Variational approach to Yang-Mills theory at finite temperatures},
author = {Hugo Reinhardt and Davide R. Campagnari and Adam P. Szczepaniak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.3389},
year = {2011}
}
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11 pages, 6 eps figures