Nonperturbative approach to Yang-Mills thermodynamics

Details Nonperturbative approach to Yang-Mills thermodynamics Nonperturbative approach to Yang-Mills thermodynamics

2005-04-07

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0504064v4

Int.J.Mod.Phys.A20:4123-4216,2005

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

92 pages, 35 figures, v4: more typos corrected, modification in evolution equations for effective couplings, consequences ther

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0217751X05023931 10.114

An analytical and nonperturbative approach to SU(2) and SU(3) Yang-Mills thermodynamics is developed and applied. Each theory comes in three phases: A deconfining, a preconfining, and a confining one. We show how macroscopic and inert scalar fields form in each phase and how they determine the ground-state physics and the properties of the excitations. While the excitations in the deconfining and preconfining phase are massless or massive gauge modes the excitations in the confining phase are massless or massive spin-1/2 fermions. The nature of the two phase transitions is investigated for each theory. We compute the temperature evolution of thermodynamical quantities in the deconfining and preconfining phase and estimate the density of states in the confining phase. Some implications for particle physics and cosmology are discussed.

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