Properties of Thermal Glueballs

TL;DR

This study investigates the thermal properties of the 0++ glueball in SU(3) quenched lattice QCD, revealing significant thermal-width broadening and modest peak shifts near the critical temperature.

Contribution

It introduces advanced spectral function analysis methods, including Breit-Wigner and MEM, to examine thermal effects on glueballs in lattice QCD.

Findings

Thermal width broadens to about 300 MeV at T_c.

Peak center shifts modestly by approximately 100 MeV.

Significant thermal effects observed near the critical temperature.

Abstract

We study the properties of the 0++ glueball at finite temperature using SU(3) quenched lattice QCD. We find a significant thermal effects near T_c. We perform the \chi^2 fit analyses adopting two Ansaetze for the spectral function, i.e., the conventional narrow-peak Ansatz and an advanced Breit-Wigner Ansatz. The latter is an extension of the former, taking account of the appearance of the thermal width at T>0. We also perform the MEM analysis. These analyses indicate that the thermal effect on the glueball is a significant thermal-width broadening \Gamma(T_c) \sim 300 MeV together with a modest reduction in the peak center \Delta\omega_0(T_c) \sim 100 MeV.