First Order Phase Transition in the SU(3) Gauge Theory at Finite Temperature
May, 19828 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
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