A Note on Asymptotic Freedom at High Temperatures

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2002-10-21

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0210281v2

Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 057901

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

4 pages; minor changes, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.67.057901

This short note considers, within the external field approach outlined in hep-ph/0202026, the role of the lowest lying gluon Landau mode in QCD in the high temperature limit. Its influence on a temperature- and field-dependent running coupling constant is examined. The thermal imaginary part of the mode is temperature-independent in our approach and exactly cancels the well-known zero temperature imaginary part, thus rendering the Savvidy vacuum stable. Combining the real part of the mode with the contributions from the higher lying Landau modes and the vacuum contribution, a field-independent coupling alpha_s(T) is obtained. It can be interpreted as the ordinary zero temperature running coupling constant with average thermal momenta \approx 2pi T for gluons and \approx pi T for quarks.

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