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On the nature of thermal QCD phase transitions

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arxiv hep-ph/0311267 v1 pith:BLTV5VB4 submitted 2003-11-21 hep-ph hep-lat

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keywords phasetransitionfiniteglueballsigmatemperaturetransitionsargue
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We argue that the chiral phase transition and the deconfinement phase transition in finite temperature QCD are just different limits of a single crossover phase transition driven by the lightest scalar field which is a mixture of the glueball and the sigma meson. The key mechanism, the level repulsion between the sigma and the glueball, gives not only a unified description of the finite temperature phase transitions, but also a consistent characterization of the entire QCD phase diagram in the temperature-quark mass plane.

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