Hard-thermal-loop QCD Thermodynamics

Naively resummed perturbative approximations to the thermodynamic functions of QCD do not converge at phenomenologically relevant temperatures. Here we review recent results of a three-loop hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory calculation of the thermodynamic functions of a quark-gluon plasma for general N_c and N_f. We show comparisons of our recent results with lattice data from both the hotQCD and Wuppertal-Budapest groups. We demonstrate that the three-loop hard-thermal-loop perturbation result for QCD thermodynamics agrees with lattice data down to temperatures T ~ 2 T_c.

quark gluon: plasma
hard thermal loop approximation
quantum chromodynamics
thermodynamics

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