Two-color QCD via dimensional reduction
Dec, 2011
17 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 02 (2012) 139
e-Print:
- 1112.2983 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- BI-TP-2011-47
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We study the thermodynamics of two-color QCD at high temperature and/or density using a dimensionally reduced superrenormalizable effective theory, formulated in terms of a coarse grained Wilson line. In the absence of quarks, the theory is required to respect the Z(2) center symmetry, while the effects of quarks of arbitrary masses and chemical potentials are introduced via soft Z(2) breaking operators. Perturbative matching of the effective theory parameters to the full theory is carried out explicitly, and it is argued how the new theory can be used to explore the phase diagram of two-color QCD.Note:
- 17 pages, 1 eps figure, jheppub style/ v2: minor update, references added, published version
- Thermal Field Theory
- QCD
- Confinement
- quantum chromodynamics
- color: 2
- thermodynamics
- dimensional reduction
- Wilson loop
- Z(2)
- symmetry breaking
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