Thermal phase transition in QCD

1995/08/15 by Andrei Smilga, A. Smilga, Smilga, A.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Theoretical and Computational Physics #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9508305

Lecture at the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Varenna, July, 1995. 19 pages LaTeX, 3 ps files for figures in a separate uu-file. Minor stylistic revisions

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Abstract

We give a review of modern theoretical understanding of the problem of thermal phase transition in QCD. The existence or non-existence of such transition depends on the nature of the gauge group, the number of light quark flavors , and on the value of quark masses. Numerical lattice measurements indicate that the phase transition \it does not occur for the experimentally observed values of quark masses.

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