We propose a new class of defects in QCD which can be viewed as embedded monopoles made of quark and gluon fields. These objects are explicitly gauge invariant and they closely resemble the Nambu monopoles in the standard electroweak model. We argue that the "embedded QCD monopoles" are proliferating in the quark-gluon plasma phase while in the low-temperature hadronic phase the spatial prolife...

We recalculate the free energy of droplets of quark-gluon plasma in a bulk hadronic medium, and of hadronic bubbles in a bulk quark-gluon plasma, under conditions resembling the cosmological quark-hadron transition. The results are derived using MIT bag boundary conditions, numerically summing over quark and gluon energy levels, as well as in terms of surface tension plus curvature expansions o...

One of the American Institute of Physics’s top stories of the year 2005 was the discovery of the quark gluon plasma at RHIC. In this paper, the basic theory of the quark gluon plasma is reviewed, and the experimental evidence from RHIC discussed.

These proceedings give a br.ief overview of the measurements effective temperature quark-gluon plasma.

It is argued that strong dynamics in the quark-gluon plasma and bound states of quarks and gluons is mostly due to nonperturbative effects described by field correlators. The emphasis in the paper is made on two explicit calculations of these effects from the first principles – one analytic using gluelump Green’s functions and another using independent lattice data on correlators. The resulting...

The primary goal of the PHENIX collaboration is the detection and characterization of the quark-gluon plasma. One of the proposed signatures of the quark-gluon plasma is the suppression of J/ production 1. We will outline the capabilities of the PHENIX experiment for measuring leptonic decays of the J/ and other quarkonium states.

Within the real-time formalism (RTF) of thermal field theory, we apply the hard thermal loop (HTL) resummation technique to calculating effective two-loop thermodynamic potential in quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and its renormalization. The result with collective effects is obtained, which is valid for an arbitrary number of quark flavors with masses. Keyword: quark-gluon plasma (QGP); finite temper...