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HTL-resummed thermodynamics of hot and dense QCD: An update
We review the proposal to resum the physics of hard thermal loops in the
thermodynamics of the quark-gluon plasma through nonperturbative expressions
for entropy and density obtained from a Phi-derivable two-loop approximation. A
comparison with the recently solved large-N_f limit of hot QCD is performed,
and some updates, in particular on quark number susceptibilities, are made.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures. To appear in the proceedings of Strong and
Electroweak Matter (SEWM 2002), Heidelberg, Germany, 2-5 Oct 2002. v2: 1 typo
and 2 references update
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