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Instability of the plasma oscillations in finite temperature perturbative QCD

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We use linear-response dielectric theory to show that the baryon-poor QCD plasma based on the perturbative vacuum is unstable, even at a high temperature. If deconfinement occurs in nuclear collisions or the early universe, it is not accompanied by the restoration of the perturbative vacuum.

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  1. Physical Research Laboratory, 380 009, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, India

    J C Parikh

  2. Department of Physics, Oregon State University, 97331-6507, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

    P J Siemens

  3. Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, California, USA

    J A Lopez

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Parikh, J.C., Siemens, P.J. & Lopez, J.A. Instability of the plasma oscillations in finite temperature perturbative QCD. Pramana - J Phys 32, 555–561 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02845986

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