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arxiv: hep-lat/0208001 · v1 · submitted 2002-08-01 · ✦ hep-lat · hep-ph· nucl-th

Does the QCD plasma contain propagating gluons?

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keywords massesplasmapropagatingtemperaturealbeitappropriatelychosencloser
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Comparison of two appropriately chosen screening masses of colour singlet operators in the pure glue QCD plasma indicates that at sufficiently high temperature it contains a weakly-interacting massive quasi-particle with the quantum numbers of the electric gluon. Still in the deconfined phase, but closer to T_c, the same mass ratio is similar to that at zero temperature, indicating that the propagating modes are more glueball-like, albeit with a lower scale for the masses. We observe a continuity between these two regimes.

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