Nonperturbative effects in gluodynamics at T >= T(c)

Sep 19, 1994
15 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 349 (1995) 335-342
Report number:
  • HD-THEP-94-27

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
Contributions to gluon thermodynamics at temperature T > 0 due to a non-perturbative background field are calculated. The free energy is written as a double series in 1 N c and the strong coupling g s . The leading order contribution due to gluon loops in the nonperturbative background field contains explicitly the expectation value of the adjoint Polyakov line. The numerical value is taken from Monte Carlo calculations on a lattice. The results for the energy density and the pressure of the gluon gas strongly deviate from purely perturbative calculations and are in qualitative agreement with recent Monte Carlo lattice calculations.
  • gluon: thermodynamics
  • finite temperature
  • background field: nonperturbative
  • partition function
  • Feynman graph: higher-order
  • Polyakov loop
  • energy: density
  • pressure
  • lattice field theory
  • numerical calculations: Monte Carlo