Free Energy of a Hot Quark-Gluon Plasma

Abstract

Thermal (Th-)QCD properties appear to disagree with lattice (L-)QCD results, which suggests that Th-QCD does not have a valid perturbative expansion. However, we reproduce L-QCD using the first order ${\alpha }_s$ corrections in Th-QCD.

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