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The pressure of the gluon plasma at 𝒪(gs6), perturbatively
Abstract
We determine the four-loop hard-scale matching correction to the pressure of the gluon plasma at high temperature. This result completes the long-standing calculation through 𝒪(gs6), where gs is the strong coupling. Our result agrees, within uncertainties, with the value obtained in arXiv:1204.6184 by fitting the perturbative series to continuum-extrapolated lattice data, thereby providing the first direct test of the weak-coupling expansion at this order.
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BibTeX
@misc{chala2026pressure,
title = {{The pressure of the gluon plasma at $\mathcalO(g_s^6)$, perturbatively}},
author = {Mikael Chala and Luis Gil and Javier López Miras},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.23676},
eprint = {2610.23676},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23676},
note = {CC BY-SA 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - The pressure of the gluon plasma at 𝒪(g_s^6), perturbatively
AU - Mikael Chala
AU - Luis Gil
AU - Javier López Miras
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/16
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.23676
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23676
AB - We determine the four-loop hard-scale matching correction to the pressure of the gluon plasma at high temperature. This result completes the long-standing calculation through 𝒪(g_s^6), where g_s is the strong coupling. Our result agrees, within uncertainties, with the value obtained in arXiv:1204.6184 by fitting the perturbative series to continuum-extrapolated lattice data, thereby providing the first direct test of the weak-coupling expansion at this order.
ER -