Finite temperature QCD: progress and outstanding problems

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Publication Type Manuscript
School or College College of Science
Department Physics
Creator DeTar, Carleton
Title Finite temperature QCD: progress and outstanding problems
Date 1995-04
Description I review recent progress in numerical simulations of finite temperature quantum chromodynamics and discuss the status of some outstanding problems. Included is (1) a discussion of recent results determining the temperature of the "phase transition" in full QCD, (2) a scaling analysis of the Polyakov loop variable, leading to the determination of a constituent quark free energy, (3) studies of critical behavior near the phase transition in two-flavor QCD, (4) a discussion of problems and new results in thermodynamic simulations with Wilson fermions, determination of the equation of state with dynamical fermions included. Finally I mention briefly new developments in efforts to construct a phenomenology of deconfinerment and chiral symmetry restoration, namely (7) the dual superconducting model and (8) the instanton model.
Type Text
Publisher Elsevier
Journal Title Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Volume 42
Issue 1-3
First Page 73
Last Page 84
DOI 10.1016/0920-5632(95)00189-G
citatation_issn 9205632
Subject Phase transitions; Staggered fermions; Wilson fermions; Polyakov loop; Deconfinement; Instanton
Subject LCSH Quantum chromodynamics; Lattice gauge theories; Particles (Nuclear physics); Phase transformations (Statistical physics); Yang-Mills theory; Equations of state
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation DeTar, C. (1995). Finite temperature QCD: progress and outstanding problems. Nuclear Physics B, 42(1-3), 1-12.
Rights Management (c) Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0920-5632(95)00189-G
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