Journal article

Publication year: 1999

Pages: 729-732

Journal: The European Physical Journal C

Volume number: 11

Issue number: 4

ISSN: 1434-6044

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100529900215

Publisher: SpringerOpen

Abstract: 
We show that requiring the quark partition function to be color singlet in the SU(3) color gauge group leads to reordering of the thermodynamic potential in terms of the colorless multiquark modes (, qqq, (q) over bar (q) over bar (q) over bar...) at any given temperature. These color-singlet structures are not bound states in a real sense, rather they are a combination of constituent quarks only. In accord with the "preconfinement" property of QCD, under a suitable confining mechanism; these could evolve into color-singlet hadrons/baryons at low temperatures. At fairly high temperatures, these multiquark color-singlet structures exist in the plasma as hadronic modes, just as in the more familiar low-temperature phase. This suggests that there exists a strong color correlation in the plasma at all temperatures.

Harvard Citation style: Mustafa, M., Sen, A. and Paria, L. (1999) Hadronic modes in the quark plasma with an internal symmetry, The European Physical Journal C, 11(4), pp. 729-732. https://doi.org/10.1007/s100529900215

APA Citation style: Mustafa, M., Sen, A., & Paria, L. (1999). Hadronic modes in the quark plasma with an internal symmetry. The European Physical Journal C. 11(4), 729-732. https://doi.org/10.1007/s100529900215