{ "id": "hep-ph/0307068", "version": "v2", "published": "2003-07-04T16:40:54.000Z", "updated": "2004-04-19T23:47:05.000Z", "title": "Linking the chiral and deconfinement phase transitions", "authors": [ "Yoshitaka Hatta", "Kenji Fukushima" ], "comment": "4 pages, terminology corrected. To appear in Phys. Rev. D", "journal": "Phys.Rev. D69 (2004) 097502", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.69.097502", "categories": [ "hep-ph", "hep-lat" ], "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.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2004-04-19T23:47:05.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "12.38.Gc", "25.75.Nq", "12.38.Mh" ], "keywords": [ "deconfinement phase transition", "zero quark mass", "finite temperature qcd", "chiral phase transition", "infinite quark mass" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Phys. Rev. D" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 4, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 622806 } } }