2011/07/05 by Thomas M. Kelley, Kelley, Thomas M.
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #hep-ph #hep-th #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1107.0931
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openalex publication_date 2011/07/05 · arxiv created 2011/08/02 · arxiv updated 2011/08/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We propose a finite-temperature holographic model with a soft-wall geometry that incorporates two scalar fields, dual to the gluon and chiral operators. A series solution is presented as the dynamical, black-hole solution to Einstein's equations. We use the solution to calculate the thermal properties of the corresponding 4D gauge theory. Gluon and chiral thermal condensates contribute leading-order terms that affect the speed of sound through and entropy of the 4D thermal medium. At a temperature Tc∼ 900 MeV, we find a phase transition, which is much higher than lattice QCD calculations. However, the transition only exists with nonzero thermal condensates.