325 research outputs found
Quark Propagation in the Quark-Gluon Plasma
It has recently been suggested that the quark-gluon plasma formed in
heavy-ion collisions behaves as a nearly ideal fluid. That behavior may be
understood if the quark and antiquark mean-free- paths are very small in the
system, leading to a "sticky molasses" description of the plasma, as advocated
by the Stony Brook group. This behavior may be traced to the fact that there
are relatively low-energy resonance states in the plasma leading to
very large scattering lengths for the quarks. These resonances have been found
in lattice simulation of QCD using the maximum entropy method (MEM). We have
used a chiral quark model, which provides a simple representation of effects
due to instanton dynamics, to study the resonances obtained using the MEM
scheme. In the present work we use our model to study the optical potential of
a quark in the quark-gluon plasma and calculate the quark mean-free-path. Our
results represent a specific example of the dynamics of the plasma as described
by the Stony Brook group.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figures, revtex
Squeezed gluon vacuum and the global colour model of QCD
We discuss how the vacuum model of Celenza and Shakin with a squeezed gluon
condensate can explain the existence of an infrared singular gluon propagator
frequently used in calculations within the global colour model. In particular,
it reproduces a recently proposed QCD-motivated model where low energy chiral
parameters were computed as a function of a dynamically generated gluon mass.
We show how the strength of the confining interaction of this gluon propagator
and the value of the physical gluon condensate may be connected.Comment: 13 pages, LaTe
Landau-gauge condensates from the quark propagator on the lattice
We compute the dimension-2 condensate, , and the dimension-4 mixed
condensate, , from the recent quenched lattice results for the
quark propagator in the Landau gauge. We fit the lattice data to the Operator
Product Expansion in the "fiducial" region 1.2 GeV < Q < 3 GeV. Our result for
the dynamical gluon mass at the scale of 10 GeV^2 is m_A=600-650 MeV, in
agreement with independent determinations. For the mixed Landau gauge
condensate of dimension-4 we get alpha_s = (-0.11 +/- 0.03)
GeV^4. This value is an order of magnitude larger than the gluon
condensate.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, references adde
Quark and Nucleon Self-Energy in Dense Matter
In a recent work we introduced a nonlocal version of the
Nambu--Jona-Lasinio(NJL) model that was designed to generate a quark
self-energy in Euclidean space that was similar to that obtained in lattice
simulations of QCD. In the present work we carry out related calculations in
Minkowski space, so that we can study the effects of the significant vector and
axial-vector interactions that appear in extended NJL models and which play an
important role in the study of the , and mesons. We study
the modification of the quark self-energy in the presence of matter and find
that our model reproduces the behavior of the quark condensate predicted by the
model-independent relation , where is the
pion-nucleon sigma term and is the density of nuclear matter. (Since
we do not include a model of confinement, our study is restricted to the
analysis of quark matter. We provide some discussion of the modification of the
above formula for quark matter.) The inclusion of a quark current mass leads to
a second-order phase transition for the restoration of chiral symmetry. That
restoration is about 80% at twice nuclear matter density for the model
considered in this work. We also find that the part of the quark self-energy
that is explicitly dependent upon density has a strong negative Lorentz-scalar
term and a strong positive Lorentz-vector term, which is analogous to the
self-energy found for the nucleon in nuclear matter when one makes use of the
Dirac equation for the nucleon. In this work we calculate the nucleon self
-energy in nuclear matter using our model of the quark self-energy and obtain
satisfactory results.Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, revte
On the Relativistic Description of the Nucleus
We discuss a relativistic theory of the atomic nuclei in the framework of the
hamiltonian formalism and of the mesonic model of the nucleus. Attention is
paid to the translational invariance of the theory. Our approach is centered on
the concept of spectral amplitude, a function in the Dirac spinor space. We
derive a Lorentz covariant equation for the latter, which requires as an input
the baryon self-energy. For this we either postulate the most general
Lorentz-Poincar\'e invariant expression or perform a calculation via a
Bethe-Salpeter equation starting from a nucleon-nucleus interaction. We discuss
the features of the nuclear spectrum obtained in the first instance. Finally
the general constraints the self-energy should satisfy because of analyticity
and Poincar\'e covariance are discussed
QCD Sum Rules Description of Nucleons in Asymmetric Nuclear Matter
We calculate the nucleon parameters in isospin asymmetric nuclear matter
using the QCD sum rules. The nucleon self-energies are expressed in terms of
the in-medium values of QCD condensates. The simple approximate expressions for
the self-energies are obtained in terms of these condensates. Relation between
successive inclusion of the condensates and the meson-exchange picture of the
nucleon interaction with medium is analyzed. The values of the self-energies
and of the symmetry energy agree with those obtained by the methods of nuclear
physics.Comment: 40 pages, 6 figure
Impact of Nucleon Mass Shift on the Freeze Out Process
The freeze out of a massive nucleon gas through a finite layer with time-like
normal is studied. The impact of in-medium nucleon mass shift on the freeze out
process is investigated. A considerable modification of the thermodynamical
variables temperature, flow-velocity, energy density and particle density has
been found. Due to the nucleon mass shift the freeze out particle distribution
functions are changed noticeably in comparison with evaluations, which use
vacuum nucleon mass.Comment: submitted to Physical Review
Squeezed Gluon Condensate and Quark Confinement in the Global Color Model of QCD
We discuss how the presence of a squeezed gluon vacuum might lead to quark
confinement in the framework of the global colour model of QCD. Using reduced
phase space quantization of massive vector theory we construct a Lorentz
invariant and colourless squeezed gluon condensate and show that it induces a
permanent, nonlocal quark interaction (delta-function in 4-momentum space),
which according to Munczek and Nemirovsky might lead to quark confinement. Our
approach makes it possible to relate the strength of this effective confining
quark interaction to the strength of the physical gluon condensate.Comment: 18 pages LaTeX, to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys.
Relativistic Hamiltonians in many-body theories
We discuss the description of a many-body nuclear system using Hamiltonians
that contain the nucleon relativistic kinetic energy and potentials with
relativistic corrections. Through the Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation, the
field theoretical problem of interacting nucleons and mesons is mapped to an
equivalent one in terms of relativistic potentials, which are then expanded at
some order in 1/m_N. The formalism is applied to the Hartree problem in nuclear
matter, showing how the results of the relativistic mean field theory can be
recovered over a wide range of densities.Comment: 14 pages, uses REVTeX and epsfig, 3 postscript figures; a postscript
version of the paper is available by anonymous ftp at
ftp://carmen.to.infn.it/pub/depace/papers/951
Nuclear effects in Deep Inelastic Scattering of polarized electrons off polarized 3He and the neutron spin structure functions
It is shown that the nuclear effects playing a relevant role in Deep
Inelastic Scattering of polarized electrons by polarized He are mainly
those arising from the effective proton and neutron polarizations generated by
the and waves in He. A simple and reliable equation relating the
neutron, , and He, , spin structure functions is proposed. It
is shown that the measurement of the first moment of the He structure
function can provide a significant check of the Bjorken Sum Rule.Comment: 11 pages (revTeX), DFUPG 75/93; 5 (postscript) figures available upon
request from the author
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