2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/39503Thermal (Th-)QCD properties appear to disagree with lattice (L-)QCD results, which suggests that Th-QCD does not have a valid perturbative expansion. However, we reproduce L-QCD using the first order $α_s$ corrections in Th-QCD.One page comment (incl. 2 figures); v3 replaces eqs with figureHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - LatticeNuclear TheoryFree Energy of a Hot Quark-Gluon Plasmatext