THE STRUCTURE OF THE QUARK-GLUON PLASMA AROUND THE DECONFINEMENT TRANSITION

Authors
GREINER W RISCHKE DH
Citation
W. Greiner et Dh. Rischke, THE STRUCTURE OF THE QUARK-GLUON PLASMA AROUND THE DECONFINEMENT TRANSITION, Physics reports, 264(1-5), 1996, pp. 183-204
Citations number
77
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics reports → ACNP
ISSN journal
03701573
Volume
264
Issue
1-5
Year of publication
1996
Pages
183 - 204
Database
ISI
SICI code
0370-1573(1996)264:1-5<183:TSOTQP>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
We review lattice QCD results on the order of the phase transition, me son correlators, and thermodynamic functions for temperatures around t he deconfinement phase transition temperature T-c. Non-perturbative ph enomena are found to dominate the behaviour of the quark-gluon plasma up to temperatures of about 2T(c). Thermodynamic properties of the pur e SU(3) gauge theory can be explained by the existence of massive gluo nic quasi-particles or bound states of gluons (''gluon clusters'').