Physics of Thermal QCD

Abstract

We give a review of modern theoretical understanding of the physics of QCD at finite temperature. Three temperature regions are studied in details: the low temperature region where the system presents a rarefied pion gas and its properties are described by chiral perturbation theory, the high temperature region where the system is adequately described in terms of quarks and gluons, and the intermediate region where phase transition occurs in some variants of the theory.

Final version of the review to be published in Physics Reports

References in corpus (8)

• Thermodynamics of SU(3) Lattice Gauge Theory
• Electroweak Baryon Number Non-Conservation in the Early Universe and in High Energy Collisions
• Effects of in-medium vector meson masses on low-mass dileptons from SPS heavy-ion collisions
• Lifetime of quasiparticles in hot QED plasmas
• Scaling of Chiral Order Parameter in Two-Flavor QCD
• Scaling of the critical temperature and quark potential with a renormalization group improved SU(3) gauge action
• QCD Thermodynamics with Improved Actions
• Physics of Quark--Gluon Plasma

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• QCD-like Theories at Finite Baryon Density
• Dynamics of Hot Bulk QCD Matter: from the Quark-Gluon Plasma to Hadronic Freeze-Out
• From chiral Random Matrix Theory to chiral Perturbation Theory
• QCD at small non-zero quark chemical potentials
• Thermal Photons and Lepton Pairs from Quark Gluon Plasma and Hot Hadronic Matter
• Semi-classical transport theory for non-Abelian plasmas
• Polyakov loop modeling for hot QCD
• The Deconfinement Phase Transition of Sp(2) and Sp(3) Yang-Mills Theories in 2+1 and 3+1 Dimensions
• Real-time pion propagation in finite-temperature QCD
• Linear sigma model and chiral symmetry at finite temperature
• QCD matter in extreme environments
• Thouless Energy and Correlations of QCD Dirac Eigenvalues
• Gluon screening mass at finite temperature from Landau gauge gluon propagator in lattice QCD
• Chiral Lagrangian at finite temperature from the Polyakov-Chiral Quark Model
• Chiral Disorder in QCD
• Small shear viscosity in the semi quark gluon plasma
• The Bulk Viscosity of a Pion Gas
• 't Hooft and Wilson loop ratios in the QCD plasma
• The Spectral Density of the QCD Dirac Operator and Patterns of Chiral Symmetry Breaking
• Hard thermal loops, to quadratic order, in the background of a spatial 't Hooft loop
• The Potential for the Phase of the Wilson line at Nonzero Quark Density
• Quantifying jet transport properties via large $p_T$ hadron production
• Domain Walls and Theta Dependence in QCD with an Effective Lagrangian Approach
• Chromomagnetic Catalysis of Color Superconductivity in a (2+1)-dimensional NJL Model
• Spontaneous Magnetization of the O(3) Ferromagnet at Low Temperatures
• Chiral symmetry and the pion gas virial expansion
• Hard-thermal-loop resummed pressure of a degenerate quark-gluon plasma
• Chiral symmetry in linear Sigma model in magnetic environment
• Spontaneous Magnetization of an Ideal Ferromagnet: Beyond Dyson's Analysis
• Anatomy of the chiral vortical effect
• The thermal coupling constant and the gap equation in the $\lambda {\varphi }_D^4$ model
• Chiral Pertubation Theory with lattice regularization
• Thermodynamics of O(N) Antiferromagnets in 2+1 Dimensions
• The SU(3)/Z_3 QCD(adj) deconfinement transition via the gauge theory/"affine" XY-model duality
• P odd fluctuations and Long Range Order in Heavy Ion Collisions. Deformed QCD as a Toy Model
• Retarded Greens Functions and Forward Scattering Amplitudes in Thermal Field Theory
• Chiral Separation effect in non-homogeneous systems
• Kertesz line and embedded monopoles in QCD
• Analytic Properties of Finite-Temperature Self-Energies
• Equivalence of light-front and conventional thermal field theory
• Moduli-Induced Vacuum Destabilisation
• Retarded thermal Greens functions and forward scattering amplitudes at two loops
• Effect of interactions on the topological expression for the chiral separation effect
• Long range order in gauge theories. Deformed QCD as a toy model
• Hall effect in the presence of rotation
• Hard Thermal Loops and Beyond in the Finite Temperature World-Line Formulation of QED
• Chiral properties of hadron correlators in nuclear matter
• Large N_c, chiral approach to M_eta' at finite temperature
• Quantum Chromodynamics, Antiferromagnets and XY Models from a Unified Point of View
• Physics of hot and dense QCD
• Lepton Asymmetry of the Universe and Charged Quark-Gluon Plasma
• Real Time Correlators in Hot (2+1)d QCD
• Non-perturbative Suppression of Chiral Vortical Effect in Hot (s)QGP for Hyperons Spin Polarization in Heavy Ion Collisions
• Real time warm pions from the lattice using an effective theory
• Hamiltonian formalism for Fermi excitations in a plasma with a non-Abelian interaction
• Three-body problem at finite temperature and density
• Kinetics of hydrodynamic pions in chiral perturbation theory
• Wilson loops in the Hamiltonian formalism
• Real-time approach to quark confined systems at finite temperatures
• Real-time thermal photon-photon interactions in the mixed space
• The critical region of strong-coupling lattice QCD in different large-N limits
• The speed of cool soft pions
• Pion production in nonequilibrium Chiral perturbation Theory
• Color plasma oscillation in strangelets
• Non-perturbative suppression of Chiral Effects in hot QGP for $\Lambda /\bar{\Lambda }$-hyperons spin polarization in heavy-ion collisions