Gluon Thermodynamics at Intermediate Coupling
Abstract
We calculate the thermodynamic functions of Yang-Mills theory to three-loop order using the hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory reorganization of finite temperature quantum field theory. We show that at three-loop order hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory is compatible with lattice results for the pressure, energy density, and entropy down to temperatures T∼2-3Tc.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- March 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.122003
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0911.0676
- Bibcode:
- 2010PhRvL.104l2003A
- Keywords:
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- 12.38.Bx;
- 11.10.Wx;
- 12.38.Mh;
- Perturbative calculations;
- Finite-temperature field theory;
- Quark-gluon plasma;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Nuclear Theory
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 3 figures