2003/10/15 by José Guilherme Milhano, J Guilherme Milhano, Milhano, J Guilherme
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0310189
Talk at the International Workshop on QCD: QCD@Work 2003 - Conversano (Italy) 14-18 June 2003 (eConf C030614). 5 pages. In memory of Ian Kogan
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The deconfinement transition in 3+1 dimensional gluodynamics is studied using the gauge invariant variational method introduced by Kogan and Kovner a few years ago. We identify a first order phase transition, characterized by a discontinuous jump in the entropy of the system, resulting in a transparent picture of the mechanism of deconfinement. The calculation of the ratio of the transition temperature to the mass of the lightest glueball in the model yields 0.18 in complete agreement with the lattice estimate.