Magnetic confinement and the Linde problem

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that magnetic confinement in the QCD vacuum prevents the infrared divergence known as the Linde problem, enabling a self-consistent perturbative description of the gluon plasma at high temperatures.

Contribution

It introduces a nonperturbative approach incorporating magnetic confinement to resolve the Linde problem in high-temperature QCD perturbation theory.

Findings

Magnetic confinement prevents infrared divergences in QCD thermodynamics.

Colormagnetic confinement makes higher-order terms IR convergent and summable.

Supports a self-consistent perturbative framework for the gluon plasma at large T.

Abstract

Perturbation theory of thermodynamic potentials in QCD at $T>T_c$ is considered with the nonperturbative background vacuum taken into account. It is shown that the magnetic confinement in the QCD vacuum prevents the infrared catastrophe of the perturbation theory present in the case of the free vacuum (the "Linde problem"). A short discussion is given of the applicability of the nonperturbative formalism at large $T$ and of the relation with the HTL theory.The observation of A.D.Linde, that the terms $O(g^n), n>6$ contribute to the order $O(g^6)$ is confirmed also with the account of the colormagnetic confinement, and it is shown that the latter makes these terms IR convergent, and summable. As a result one obtains the selfconsistent theory of the gluon plasma.