ISSN:
1434-601X
Keywords:
PACS. 12.38.Mh Quark-gluon plasma – 12.38.Gc Lattice QCD calculations – 12.39.Ba Bag model – 12.39.Mk Glueball and nonstandard multi-quark/gluon states
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Abstract: The lattice QCD studies indicate that the critical temperature T c ≃ 260-280 MeV of the deconfinement phase transition in quenched QCD is considerably smaller than the lowest-lying glueball mass m G ≃ 1500-1700 MeV, i.e., T c ≪ m G. As a consequence of this large difference, the thermal excitation of the glueball in the confinement phase is strongly suppressed by the statistical factor e -mG/Tc ≃ 0.00207 even near T ≃ T c. We consider its physical implication, and argue the abnormal feature of the deconfinement phase transition in quenched QCD from the statistical viewpoint. To appreciate this, we demonstrate a statistical argument of the QCD phase transition using the recent lattice QCD data. From the phenomenological relation between T c and the glueball mass, the deconfinement transition is found to take place in quenched QCD before a reasonable amount of glueballs is thermally excited. In this way, quenched QCD reveals a question “what is the trigger of the deconfinement phase transition ?”
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2002-10147-0
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