The Polyakov loop and the hadron resonance gas model
Apr, 2012
5 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 109 (2012) 151601
e-Print:
- 1204.2424 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- UAB-FT-707,
- INT-PUB-12-018
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Abstract: (arXiv)
The Polyakov loop has been used repeatedly as an order parameter in the deconfinement phase transition in QCD. We argue that, in the confined phase, its expectation value can be represented in terms of hadronic states, similarly to the hadron resonance gas model for the pressure. Specifically, L(T) \approx 1/2\sum_\alpha g_\alpha \,e^(-\Delta_\alpha/T), where g_\alpha are the degeneracies and \Delta_\alpha are the masses of hadrons with exactly one heavy quark (the mass of the heavy quark itself being subtracted). We show that this approximate sum rule gives a fair description of available lattice data with N_f=2+1 for temperatures in the range 150MeVNote:
- 5 pages, 4 figures. Error in normalization corrected. Excited states included. Substantially revised
- 11.15.-q
- 11.10.Jj
- 11.10.Wx
- 12.38.Lg
- hadron: resonance: gas
- hadron: mass
- heavy quark: mass
- critical phenomena: deconfinement
- Polyakov loop
- lattice
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