{
  "id": "0803.1880",
  "version": "v3",
  "published": "2008-03-13T02:34:49.000Z",
  "updated": "2008-03-14T21:48:01.000Z",
  "title": "Dissolved deconfinement: Phase Structure of large N gauge theories with fundamental matter",
  "authors": [
    "Pallab Basu",
    "Anindya Mukherjee"
  ],
  "comment": "22 pages, 19 figures, revtex4. Updated formatting",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev.D78:045012,2008",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.78.045012",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th",
    "hep-lat",
    "hep-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "A class of large N SU(N) gauge theories on a compact manifold S^3 X R (with possible inclusion of adjoint matter) is known to show first order deconfinement transition at the deconfinement temperature. This includes the familiar example of pure YM theory and N=4 SYM theory. Here we study the effect of introduction of N_f fundamental matter fields in the phase diagram of the above mentioned gauge theories at small coupling and in the limit of large N and finite N_f/N. We find some interesting features like the termination of the line of first order deconfinement phase transition at a critical point as the ratio N_f/N is increased and absence of deconfinement transition thereafter (there is only a smooth crossover). This result may have some implication for QCD, which unlike a pure gauge theory does not show a first order deconfinement transition and only displays a smooth crossover at the transition temperature.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v3",
      "updated": "2008-03-14T21:48:01.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "11.15.Pg"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "gauge theory",
      "fundamental matter",
      "first order deconfinement transition",
      "phase structure",
      "dissolved deconfinement"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review D",
      "year": 2008,
      "month": "Aug",
      "volume": 78,
      "number": 4,
      "pages": "045012"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "RevTeX",
      "pages": 22,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 781298,
      "adsabs": "2008PhRvD..78d5012B"
    }
  }
}