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Perturbing QCD with external fields

Paolo Cea·Leonardo Cosmai·Massimo D'Elia
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We present some up-to-date results on QCD phase transition in a chromomagnetic constant background field and in an abelian monopole background field. Our results indicate that the QCD critical temperature is not modified by a monopole background field, whilst it is modified by a constant chromomagnetic field. We improve our earlier estimate of the QCD critical parameters in a chromomagnetic background field by performing lattice simulations with weaker fields.

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Paolo Cea, Leonardo Cosmai, Massimo D'Elia. 2007-10-08. Perturbing QCD with external fields. https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1449

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