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Unified description of deconfined QCD equation of state

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Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 34 (8): S631--S634 (Aug 1, 2007)
DOI: 10.1088/0954-3899/34/8/s60

Abstract

Several distinct perturbative approaches exist to describe the equation of state of QCD in the deconfined phase: dimensional reduction works for temperatures larger than the screening mass, otherwise one has to apply HDL/HTL resummation schemes at small temperatures or resort to the result by Freedman and McLerran at zero temperature. We present a new method that unifies these approaches in a manifestly four-dimensional calculation. We work out our new method for the pressure up to and including order g 4 and verify that it agrees to the previous approaches in their respective ranges of validity.

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