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Deconfinement and Gluon Plasma Dynamics in Improved Holographic QCD

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2008-10-31

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Gursoy, UmutISNI 0000000392717860
Kiritsis, E.
Mazzanti, L.ISNI 0000000359276127
Nitti, F.

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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.181601

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The thermodynamics of 5D dilaton gravity duals to confining gauge theories is analyzed. We show that they exhibit a first order Hawking-Page type phase transition. In the explicit background of improved holographic QCD of [U. Gursoy and E. Kiritsis, J. High Energy Phys. 02 (2008) 032] [U. Gursoy, E. Kiritsis, and F. Nitti, J. High Energy Phys. 02 (2008) 019], we find T c = 235     MeV . The temperature dependence of various thermodynamic quantities such as the pressure, entropy, and speed of sound is calculated. The results are in agreement with the corresponding lattice data.

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Gursoy, U, Kiritsis, E, Mazzanti, L & Nitti, F 2008, 'Deconfinement and Gluon Plasma Dynamics in Improved Holographic QCD', Physical Review Letters, vol. 101, no. 18, 181601 , pp. 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.181601

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