Journal article

Publication year: 2007

Pages: 365-381

Journal: Nuclear Physics A: Nuclear and Hadronic Physics

Volume number: 791

Issue number: 3-4

ISSN: 0375-9474

eISSN: 1873-1554

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2007.04.015

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract: 
In this study it is demonstrated that a simple picture of the QCD gluon liquid emerges in the dynamical quasiparticle model that specifies the active degrees of freedom in the time-like sector and yields a potential energy density in the space-like sector. By using the time-like gluon density (or scalar gluon density) as an independent degree of freedom-instead of the temperature T as a Lagrange parameter-variations of the potential energy density lead to effective mean-fields for time-like gluons and an effective gluon-gluon interaction strength at low density. The latter yields a simple dynamical picture for the gluon fusion to color neutral glueballs when approaching the phase boundary from a temperature higher than T-c and paves the way for an off-shell transport theoretical description of the parton dynamics. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Harvard Citation style: Cassing, W. (2007) QCD thermodynamics and confinement from a dynamical quasiparticle point of view, Nuclear Physics A: Nuclear and Hadronic Physics, 791(3-4), pp. 365-381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2007.04.015

APA Citation style: Cassing, W. (2007). QCD thermodynamics and confinement from a dynamical quasiparticle point of view. Nuclear Physics A: Nuclear and Hadronic Physics. 791(3-4), 365-381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2007.04.015