Published May 15, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Pressure of hot QCD up to g6ln(1/g)

  • 1. Department of Physics, P.O. Box 64, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki (Finland)
  • 2. Theory Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)
  • 3. Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)

Description

The free energy density, or pressure, of QCD has at high temperatures an expansion in the coupling constant g, known so far up to order g5. We compute here the last contribution which can be determined perturbatively, g6ln(1/g), by summing together results for the 4-loop vacuum energy densities of two different three-dimensional effective field theories. We also demonstrate that the inclusion of the new perturbative g6ln(1/g) terms, once they are summed together with the so far unknown perturbative and nonperturbative g6 terms, could potentially extend the applicability of the coupling constant series down to surprisingly low temperatures

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
67
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 105008-105008.9
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
35078586
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
COUPLING CONSTANTS; ENERGY DENSITY; FREE ENERGY; PERTURBATION THEORY; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; VACUUM STATES
Descriptors DEC
ENERGY; FIELD THEORIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES

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