The bulk channel in thermal gauge theories

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2010)099zbMATH Open1272.81123arXiv1002.3343WikidataQ59254739 ScholiaQ59254739MaRDI QIDQ367708FDOQ367708

H. Meyer

Publication date: 16 September 2013

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the thermal correlator of the trace of the energy-momentum tensor in the SU(3) Yang-Mills theory. Our goal is to constrain the spectral function in that channel, whose low-frequency part determines the bulk viscosity. We focus on the thermal modification of the spectral function, $ho(omega,T)-ho(omega,0)$. Using the operator-product expansion we give the high-frequency behavior of this difference in terms of thermodynamic potentials. We take into account the presence of an exact delta function located at the origin, which had been missed in previous analyses. We then combine the bulk sum rule and a Monte-Carlo evaluation of the Euclidean correlator to determine the intervals of frequency where the spectral density is enhanced or depleted by thermal effects. We find evidence that the thermal spectral density is non-zero for frequencies below the scalar glueball mass $m$ and is significantly depleted for $mlesssimomegalesssim3m$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3343

zbMATH Keywords

lattice gauge field theoriesthermal field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

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