Role of the Phonon in the Quantum-Chromodynamical Plasma
- 18 April 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 50 (16), 1179-1180
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.50.1179
Abstract
It is observed that a color-neutral scalar phonon mode of velocity should exist in the QCD plasma. The energy density of the phonons is that of noninteracting massless gluons and compensates to a considerable extent for the suppression of gluon modes due to collective plasma effects.
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