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We use the analogy between ordinary plasmas and the quark—gluon plasma to explain the nature of collective excitations in the latter case. We examine the novel features which are brought by gauge symmetry in the case of collective excitations with fermion or gluon quantum numbers.
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Le Bellac, M. (2002). Collective Excitations in a Quark—Gluon Plasma. In: Kalman, G.J., Rommel, J.M., Blagoev, K. (eds) Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47086-1_8
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