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Finite Temperature Solitons in Non-Local Field Theories from p-Adic Strings
Non-local field theories which arise from p-adic string theories have vacuum
soliton solutions. We find the soliton solutions at finite temperature. These
solutions become important for the partition function when the temperature
exceeds m_s/g_o^2 where m_s is the string mass scale and g_o is the open string
coupling.Comment: 22 pages, 6 figure
Modification of Z Boson Properties in Quark-Gluon Plasma
We calculate the change in the effective mass and width of a Z boson in the
environment of a quark-gluon plasma under the conditions expected in Pb-Pb
collisions at the LHC. The change in width is predicted to be only about 1 MeV
at a temperature of 1 GeV, compared to the natural width of 24907 MeV. The
mass shift is even smaller. Hence no observable effects are to be expected.Comment: 7 pages latex file with 6 embedded PS figure
The N_f^3 g^6 term in the pressure of hot QCD
We determine the first independent part of the g^6 coefficient in the weak
coupling expansion of the QCD pressure at high temperatures, the one
proportional to the maximal power of the number of quark flavors N_f. In
addition to introducing and developing computational methods that can be used
in evaluating other parts of the expansion, our calculation provides a result
that becomes dominant in the limit of large N_f and a fixed effective coupling
g_{eff}^2 = g^2 N_f/2.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures, revtex, v2: minor modifications and additional
reference
Effect of the Haar measure on the finite temperature effective potential of Yang-Mills theory
Including the Haar measure we show that the effective potential of the
regularized SU(2) Yang-Mills theory has a minimum at vanishing Wilson-line
for strong coupling, whereas it develops two degenerate minima close to
for weak coupling. This suggests that the non-abelian character of
as contained in the Haar measure might be responsible for confinement.Comment: 3 pages, LATEX, 1 figure, figure available upon reques
Neutrino Superfluidity
It is shown that Dirac-type neutrinos display BCS superfluidity for any
nonzero mass. The Cooper pairs are formed by attractive scalar Higgs boson
exchange between left- and right-handed neutrinos; in the standard SU(2)xU(1)
theory, right-handed neutrinos do not couple to any other boson. The value of
the gap, the critical temperature, and the Pippard coherence length are
calculated for arbitrary values of the neutrino mass and chemical potential.
Although such a superfluid could conceivably exist, detecting it would be a
major challenge.Comment: This is the version published in PR
On the imaginary parts and infrared divergences of two-loop vector boson self-energies in thermal QCD
We calculate the imaginary part of the retarded two-loop self-energy of a
static vector boson in a plasma of quarks and gluons of temperature T, using
the imaginary time formalism. We recombine various cuts of the self-energy to
generate physical processes. We demonstrate how cuts containing loops may be
reinterpreted in terms of interference between Order tree diagrams and
the Born term along with spectators from the medium. We apply our results to
the rate of dilepton production in the limit of dilepton invariant mass E>>T.
We find that all infrared and collinear singularities cancel in the final
result obtained in this limit.Comment: references added, typos corrected, slightly abridged, version
accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
A Center-Symmetric 1/N Expansion
The free energy of U(N) gauge theory is expanded about a center-symmetric
topological background configuration with vanishing action and vanishing
Polyakov loops. We construct this background for SU(N) lattice gauge theory and
show that it uniquely describes center-symmetric minimal action orbits in the
limit of infinite lattice volume. The leading contribution to the free energy
in the 1/N expansion about this background is of O(N^0) rather than O(N^2) as
one finds when the center symmetry is spontaneously broken. The contribution of
planar 't Hooft diagrams to the free energy is O(1/N^2) and sub-leading in this
case. The change in behavior of the diagrammatic expansion is traced to Linde's
observation that the usual perturbation series of non-Abelian gauge theories
suffers from severe infrared divergences. This infrared problem does not arise
in a center-symmetric expansion. The 't Hooft coupling \lambda=g^2 N is found
to decrease proportional to 1/\ln(N) for large N. There is evidence of a
vector-ghost in the planar truncation of the model.Comment: 27 pages, 2 figures; extended and corrected version with additional
material and reference
Bulk Viscosity of Interacting Hadrons
We show that first approximations to the bulk viscosity are
expressible in terms of factors that depend on the sound speed , the
enthalpy, and the interaction (elastic and inelastic) cross section. The
explicit dependence of on the factor is
demonstrated in the Chapman-Enskog approximation as well as the variational and
relaxation time approaches. The interesting feature of bulk viscosity is that
the dominant contributions at a given temperature arise from particles which
are neither extremely nonrelativistic nor extremely relativistic. Numerical
results for a model binary mixture are reported.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, Contribution to Quark Matter 2009, Knoxville,
Tennessee, US
Anomalies at finite density and chiral fermions
Using perturbation theory in the Euclidean (imaginary time) formalism as well
as the non-perturbative Fujikawa method, we verify that the chiral anomaly
equation remains unaffected in the presence of nonzero chemical potential,
. We extend our considerations to fermions with exact chiral symmetry on
the lattice and discuss the consequences for the recent Bloch-Wettig proposal
for the Dirac operator at finite chemical potential. We propose a new simpler
method of incorporating and compare it with the Bloch-Wettig idea.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures,some typos corrected, a better proof for the \mu
independence of anomaly is given in section IIB, v4: the published versio
Effects of a Thermal Bath of Photons on Embedded String Stability
We compute the corrections of thermal photons on the effective potential for
the linear sigma model of QCD. Since we are interested in temperatures lower
than the confinement temperature, we consider the scalar fields to be out of
equilibrium. Two of the scalar field are uncharged while the other two are
charged under the U(1) gauge symmetry of electromagnetism. We find that the
induced thermal terms in the effective potential can stabilize the embedded
pion string, a string configuration which is unstable in the vacuum. Our
results are applicable in a more general context and demonstrate that embedded
string configurations arising in a wider class of field theories can be
stabilized by thermal effects. Another well-known example of an embedded string
which can be stabilized by thermal effects is the electroweak Z-string. We
discuss the general criteria for thermal stabilization of embedded defects.Comment: 6 pages, formatting changed, a few typos correcte
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