Applications of {QCD} Sum Rules at Finite Temperature

Sep, 1989
31 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 42 (1990) 1744-1756
Report number:
  • DOE-ER-40322-084,
  • UMPP-90-031,
  • SUNY-NTG-89-48

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Abstract: (APS)
QCD sum-rule techniques are applied to the spectra of ρ and Jψ mesons at finite temperature to investigate the relative importance of quark and gluon condensates and perturbative thermal effects in determining bound-state parameters. Of particular interest are the consequences of nonperturbative physics persisting above the deconfinement phase transition, which is implied by nonzero gluon condensates found in lattice calculations. For the ρ meson, the quark thermal bath induces only a smooth variation in the hadronic parameters as the temperature is increased; the quark condensate and its temperature dependence are the most important factors. For the Jψ meson, perturbative thermal effects overwhelm the gluon condensate contribution at a temperature around 100 MeV, so that high-temperature charmonium physics is consistent with that expected in a weakly interacting quark-gluon plasma. Corrections to other plasma properties from nonperturbative physics are discussed.
  • quantum chromodynamics: sum rule
  • finite temperature
  • rho(770): mass
  • mass: rho(770)
  • J/psi(3100): mass
  • mass: J/psi(3100)
  • quark: condensation
  • gluon: condensation
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • Wilson loop