The Effect of SU(3) color singletness on quark - gluon deconfinement phase transition in the MIT bag

Aug, 1993
16 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 318 (1993) 517-523
Report number:
  • IP-BBSR-93-43

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A thermodynamical description of a single hadron with SU(3) colour singlet restriction as an essential ingredient of the quark-gluon system is given within the MIT bag. Instead of the usual diverging behaviour of the bag radius, we find two bag radii appearing at a transition temperature T s in the large volume limit, and at a critical temperature T c > T s , both the radii merge to a critical value, beyond which there is no bag solution resulting in a first order phase transition to a free quark-gluon plasma. Thus, the SU(3) colour singletness leads to a finite volume correction to the thermodynamic quantities which in turn causes a superheated metastable hadron to appear between T s and T c .
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • color: singlet
  • bag model
  • critical phenomena: confinement
  • thermodynamics
  • effect: finite size
  • partition function
  • potential: chemical