Deconfinement and Gluon Plasma Dynamics in Improved Holographic QCD.pdfVIP

Deconfinement and Gluon Plasma Dynamics in Improved Holographic QCD a a,b a a Umut G¨ursoy , Elias Kiritsis , Liuba Mazzanti , and Francesco Nitti a ´ CPHT, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France and b Department of Physics, University of Crete 71003 Heraklion, Greece (Dated: April 8, 2008) The finite temperature physics of the pure glue sector in the improved holographic QCD model of [8] is addressed. The thermodynamics of 5D dilaton gravity duals to confining gauge theories is analyzed. We show that they exhibit a first order Hawkingtype phase transition. In the explicit background of [8], we find Tc = 235 MeV. The temperature dependence of various thermodynamic quantities such as the pressure, entropy and speed of sound is calculated. The results show remarkable agreement with the corresponding lattice data. 8 PACS numbers: 11.25.Tq, 25.75.Nq 0 0 2 Despite several decades’ efforts, an important part of tions at the IR boundary. This approach, although crude, r the dynamics of QCD remains far from analytical control has been partly successful in studying meson physics, de- p and in several cases numerical techniques have proven spite the fact that the dynamics driving chiral symmetry A too difficult to implement. In particular, re