Color degrees of freedom in a quark-glue plasma at finite baryon density

Hans Thomas Elze; Walter Greiner; Johann Rafelski

doi:10.1007/BF01410375

Color degrees of freedom in a quark-glue plasma at finite baryon density

Hans Thomas Elze, Walter Greiner, Johann Rafelski

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We derive the color-singlet partition function for a quark-glue plasma with finite quark (baryon number) density by a projection method. Due to colorlessness there is a gradual "freezing" (reduction) of internal degrees of freedom as compared to the Stefan-Boltzmann limit. We find here that this non-perturbative effect is reduced by a finite quark density. A relation between the requirement of colorlessness of all physical states and QCD is proposed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	361-365
Number of pages	5
Journal	Zeitschrift für Physik C: Particles and Fields
Volume	24
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01410375
State	Published - Sep 1984

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