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Glueball dynamics in the hot plasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-08-24 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We discuss the glueball contribution to the equation of state (EoS) of hot gluon matter below and above TcT_c. It is shown that the strong changing of masses of scalar and pseudoscalar glueballs near TcT_c plays very important role in the thermodynamics of SU(3)SU(3) gauge theory. In particular, we give the arguments that these glueballs become massless at TG1.1TcT_G\approx 1.1T_c and this phenomenon is crucial in understanding of the mystery in the behavior of trace anomaly founded in the lattice calculation.

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@article{arxiv.1601.05145,
  title  = {Glueball dynamics in the hot plasma},
  author = {Nikolai Kochelev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.05145},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures

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