Linking the chiral and deconfinement phase transitions

Abstract

We show that the electric glueball becomes critical at the end-point of the deconfinement phase transition in finite temperature QCD. Based on this observation and existing lattice data, we argue that the chiral phase transition at a zero quark mass and the deconfinement phase transition at an infinite quark mass are continuously connected by the glueball-sigma mixing.

4 pages, terminology corrected. To appear in Phys. Rev. D

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