Consistent approach to study gluon quasi-particles

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new method for analyzing gluon quasi-particles' thermodynamics across different phases, addressing challenges in models with complex effective potentials.

Contribution

It presents a novel, consistent approach to study gluon quasi-particles' thermodynamics, especially in models with multiple extrema in effective potentials.

Findings

Effective model captures thermodynamic behavior across phases

Method provides consistent estimates of partition functions

Results align with known properties of gluon quasi-particles

Abstract

We discuss a novel approach to estimate the partition function in effective model frameworks when the effective potentials have multiple extrema, so that ascertaining a mean field becomes difficult. Using this approach we present a consistent model to study the thermodynamic properties of gluon quasi-particles as a function of temperature, both in the color confined and the color deconfined phases.