QCD phase transition at finite temperature in the dual Ginzburg-Landau theory

Aug, 1994
18 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 52 (1995) 2944-2950
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Report number:
  • RIKEN-AF-NP-176

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Abstract:
We study the pure-gauge QCD phase transition at finite temperatures in the dual Ginzburg-Landau theory, an effective theory of QCD based on the dual Higgs mechanism. We formulate the effective potential at various temperatures by introducing the quadratic source term, which is a new useful method to obtain the effective potential in the negative-curvature region. Thermal effects reduce the QCD-monopole condensate and bring a first-order deconfinement phase transition. We find a large reduction of the self-interaction among QCD-monopoles and the glueball masses near the critical temperature by considering the temperature dependence of the self-interaction. We also calculate the string tension at finite temperatures.
Note:
  • 13 pages, uses PHYZZX ( 5 figures - available on request from ichie@atlas.phys.metro-u.ac.jp )
  • quantum chromodynamics: vacuum state
  • finite temperature
  • critical phenomena: confinement
  • Landau-Ginzburg model
  • duality
  • Higgs model
  • effective potential
  • path integral
  • condensation: monopole
  • glueball: mass