TY - CONF A1 - Sasaki, Chihiro T1 - Effective theory of Yang-Mills thermodynamics T2 - Proceedings of Science N2 - We derive the Polyakov-loop thermodynamic potential in the perturbative approach to pure SU(3) Yang-Mills theory. The potential expressed in terms of the Polyakov loop in the fundamental representation corresponds to that of the strong-coupling expansion, of which the relevant coefficients of the gluon energy distribution are specified by characters of the SU(3) group. At high temperature, the potential exhibits the correct asymptotic behavior, whereas at low temperature, it disfavors gluons as appropriate dynamical degrees of freedom. To quantify the Yang-Mills thermodynamics in confined phase, we introduce a hybrid approach which matches the effective gluon potential to that of glueballs, constrained by the QCD trace anomaly in terms of dilaton fields. Y1 - 2013 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36536 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-365360 UR - http://pos.sissa.it/archive/conferences/185/052/CPOD%202013_030.pdf SN - 1824-8039 N1 - (c) Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence. N1 - 8th International Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement, March 11 to 15, 2013 Napa, California, USA VL - 2013 IS - PoS(CPOD 2013)030 SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - SISSA CY - Trieste ER -