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arxiv: hep-ph/0209190 · v2 · submitted 2002-09-17 · ✦ hep-ph

Pressure of Hot QCD at Large N_f

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keywords pressureambiguitieslandaulargeorderbrokencalculationcompute
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We compute the pressure and entropy of hot QCD in the limit of large number of fermions, N_f >> N_c ~ 1, to next to leading order in N_f. At this order the calculation can be done exactly, up to ambiguities due to the presence of a Landau pole in the theory; the ambiguities are O(T^8/\Lambda^4_{Landau}) and remain negligible long after the perturbative series (in g^2 N_f) has broken down. Our results can be used to test several proposed resummation schemes for the pressure of full QCD.

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