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arxiv: 1011.0416 · v1 · pith:QMXJABZ4new · submitted 2010-11-01 · ✦ hep-ph · nucl-th

Hard-thermal-loop QCD Thermodynamics

classification ✦ hep-ph nucl-th
keywords hard-thermal-loopdatafunctionslatticeperturbationrecentresultstemperatures
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Naively resummed perturbative approximations to the thermodynamic functions of QCD do not converge at phenomenologically relevant temperatures. Here we review recent results of a three-loop hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory calculation of the thermodynamic functions of a quark-gluon plasma for general N_c and N_f. We show comparisons of our recent results with lattice data from both the hotQCD and Wuppertal-Budapest groups. We demonstrate that the three-loop hard-thermal-loop perturbation result for QCD thermodynamics agrees with lattice data down to temperatures T ~ 2 T_c.

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