Connecting Polyakov Loops to Hadrons
Abstract
The order parameter for the pure Yang-Mills phase transition is the Polyakov loop, which encodes the symmetries of the ZN center of the SU(N) gauge group. The physical degrees of freedom of any asymptotically free gauge theory are hadronic states. Using the Yang-Mills trace anomaly and the exact ZN symmetry we show that the transfer of information from the order parameter to hadrons is complete.
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