Thermodynamic properties of gluon plasma: A q-potential approach

Abstract

In this work, we study the thermodynamic properties of quark-gluon plasma using Kramer's $q-potential$ method. We propose a modification in the first law of thermodynamics by including a temperature-dependent term when single particle energies themselves are temperature-dependent. With this modified first law, we derive an expression for pressure starting from Kramer's $q-potential$. We find that to maintain thermodynamic consistency, pressure receives an additional term solely due to medium-dependent dispersion relation. The energy density, by definition, remains a sum over all the single-particle energies with an appropriate weight factor. We confront this quasiparticle model with the lattice QCD data of SU(3) pure gluon plasma.

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