First Order Phase Transition in the SU(3) Gauge Theory at Finite Temperature

May, 1982
8 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 26 (1982) 963
Report number:
  • CALT-68-913

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Abstract: (APS)
We argue that the phase transition which separates the low-temperature confining phase from the high-temperature nonconfining phase in the SU(3) gauge theory (without quarks) is first order.
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: SU(3)
  • field theory: finite temperature
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: CRITICAL PHENOMENA
  • QUARK: CONFINEMENT
  • TEMPERATURE: HIGH
  • TEMPERATURE: LOW
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: WILSON LOOP
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: MASS GENERATION
  • MASS GENERATION: GAUGE FIELD THEORY