Published March 1, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Does the QCD plasma contain gluons?

  • 1. Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400005 (India)
  • 2. Fakultaet fuer Physik, Universitaet Bielefeld, D-33615 Bielefeld (Germany)

Description

A comparison of two appropriately chosen screening masses of color singlet operators in the pure glue QCD plasma indicates that at sufficiently high temperature it contains a weakly interacting massive quasiparticle with the quantum numbers of the electric gluon. Still in the deconfined phase, but closer to Tc, the same mass ratio is similar to that at zero temperature, indicating that the propagating modes are more glueball-like, albeit with a lower scale for the masses. We observe a continuity between these two regimes

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
67
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 054503-054503.4
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
35075577
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
COLOR MODEL; GLUONS; MASS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUANTUM NUMBERS; QUARK MATTER; QUASI PARTICLES
Descriptors DEC
BOSONS; COMPOSITE MODELS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARK MODEL

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