Quasiparticle description of the QCD plasma, comparison with lattice results at finite T and μ

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 199-212

  Szabó, Kalman K ^a   Tóth, Anna I ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Lattice Gauge Field Theories; Lattice QCD; Lattice Quantum Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 23144445978     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/06/008     Document Type: Article

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