Properties of Thermal Glueballs

Abstract

We study the properties of the 0++ glueball at finite temperature using SU(3) quenched lattice QCD. We find a significant thermal effects near T_c. We perform the \chi^2 fit analyses adopting two Ansaetze for the spectral function, i.e., the conventional narrow-peak Ansatz and an advanced Breit-Wigner Ansatz. The latter is an extension of the former, taking account of the appearance of the thermal width at T>0. We also perform the MEM analysis. These analyses indicate that the thermal effect on the glueball is a significant thermal-width broadening \Gamma(T_c) \sim 300 MeV together with a modest reduction in the peak center \Delta\omega_0(T_c) \sim 100 MeV.

Comments: A talk presented at International Conference on Color Confinement and Hadrons in Quantum Chromodynamics --Confinement 2003--, Wako, Japan, 21-24 July 2003, 5 pages, 3 figures