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Axion Mass and the Ground State of Deconfining SU(2) Yang–Mills Thermodynamics
- Ralf Hofmann,
- Janning Meinert and
- Dmitry Antonov
For the deconfinement phase of an SU(2) Yang–Mills theory, we compute the axion mass mA by appealing to the Veneziano–Witten formula. The topological susceptibility χ arises (i) from a precisely computable thermal ground-state contrib...

