On the Apparent Convergence of Perturbative QCD at High Temperature

Details On the Apparent Convergence of Perturbative QCD at High Temperature On the Apparent Convergence of Perturbative QCD at High Temperature

2003-03-06

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0303045v3

Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 025011

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

v2: 18 pages, 8 figures, REVTEX4, 2 additional subsections discussing the effect of 4-loop logarithms; v3: references updated,

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.68.025011

The successive perturbative estimates of the pressure of QCD at high temperature T show no sign of convergence, unless the coupling constant g is unrealistically small. Exploiting known results of an effective field theory which separates hard (order 2 pi T) and soft (order gT) contributions, we explore the accuracy of simple resummations which at a given loop order systematically treat hard contributions strictly perturbatively, but soft contributions without truncations. This turns out to improve significantly the two-loop and the three-loop results in that both remain below the ideal-gas value, and the degree of renormalization scale dependence decreases as one goes from two to three loop order, whereas it increases in the conventional perturbative results. Including the four-loop logarithms recently obtained by Kajantie et al., we find that this trend continues and that with a particular sublogarithmic constant the untruncated four-loop result is close to the three-loop result, which itself agrees well with available lattice results down to temperatures of about 2.5 T_c. We also investigate the possibility of optimization by using a variational (``screened'') perturbation theory in the effective theory. At two loops, this gives a result below the ideal gas value, and also closer to lattice results than the recent two-loop hard-thermal-loop-screened result of Andersen et al. While at three-loop order the gap equation of dimensionally reduced screened perturbation theory does not have a solution in QCD, this is remedied upon inclusion of the four-loop logarithms.

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