Probing QCD with the ALICE detector at the LHC

Andronic, A.

doi:10.1063/1.3536592

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“…The aim of the present investigation is the further assessment of the critical behavior. This will be performed using lattice simulations in three and four dimensions for the gauge group SU (2). In four dimensions, for this purpose, a significantly refined temperature mesh and increased statistics were used compared to the previous study [18].…”

Section: Critical Behavior and The Gluon Propagatormentioning

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Gluon propagator close to criticality

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There are good reasons that the deconfinement phase transition of pure Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature should also be reflected in the behavior of gauge-fixed gluonic correlation functions. Understanding this in detail would provide another important example of how physical information can be extracted from gauge-dependent correlations, which is not always obvious. Therefore, herein we study the behavior of the Landau-gauge gluon propagator of pure SU (2) across the phase transition in 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions in order to assess to what extend the corresponding critical behavior is reflected in these correlations. We discuss why it should emerge from a continuum perspective and test our expectations in lattice simulations. A comparison with SU (3) furthermore reveals quite clear indications for a sensitivity of the gluon propagator to the order of the transition.

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Section: Critical Behavior and The Gluon Propagatormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A rich structure of possible phases and transitions between them is being discussed in various regions, see, e.g. [1][2][3]. Understanding how these phase transitions manifest themselves both theoretically and experimentally in a joint effort is the great challenge of strongly interacting matter research.…”

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confidence: 99%