Properties of the Quark Gluon Plasma: A lattice perspective

Abstract

We discuss results from lattice calculations for a few observables that are sensitive to different length scales in the high temperature phase of QCD and can give insight into its non-perturbative structure. We compare lattice results with perturbative calculations at high temperature obtained for vanishing and non-vanishing quark chemical potential.

arXiv commentplenary talk given at Hard Probes 2006, June 9-16, 2006, Asilomar, CA, USA; 9 pages, 10 EPS-figures

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