Thermodynamics of the strongly interacting gluon plasma in the large-N limit

Proceedings of Science

Volumn 91, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Panero, M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; GAGES; TEMPERATURE;

DECONFINEMENT; ENERGY AND ENTROPIES; ENTROPY DENSITY; EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS; GAUGE THEORY; GLUON PLASMAS; SUPERGRAVITY; WEAK DEPENDENCES;

LATTICE THEORY;

EID: 80053167628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18248039     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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