187 research outputs found
Effects of the Running of the QCD Coupling on the Energy Loss in the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Finite temperature modifies the running of the QCD coupling alpha_s(k,T) with
resolution k. After calculating the thermal quark and gluon masses
selfconsistently, we determine the quark-quark and quark-gluon cross sections
in the plasma based on the running coupling. We find that the running coupling
enhances these cross sections by factors of two to four depending on the
temperature. We also compute the energy loss dE/dx of a high-energy quark in
the plasma as a function of temperature. Our study suggests that, beside
t-channel processes, inverse Compton scattering is a relevant process for a
quantitative understanding of the energy loss of an incident quark in a hot
plasma.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figure
Thermodynamics of Constituent Quarks
We investigate the thermal behavior of quarks and antiquarks interacting via
a temperature-dependent linear potential. The quarks are constituent quarks
with dynamically generated masses from the background linear -model.We
find a transition from a system of bound mesons to a correlated quark gas at
the same temperature as the chiral transition temperature.Comment: 24 pages, 5 Postscript figures, uses article.sty, epsf.sty,
epsfig.st
Volume Dependence of the Pion Mass in the Quark-Meson-Model
We consider the quark-meson-model in a finite three-dimensional volume using
the Schwinger proper-time renormalization group. We derive and solve the flow
equations for finite volume in local potential approximation. In order to break
chiral symmetry in the finite volume, we introduce a small current quark mass.
The corresponding effective meson potential breaks chiral O(4) symmetry
explicitly, depending on sigma and pion fields separately. We calculate the
volume dependence of the pion mass and of the pion decay constant with the
renormalization group flow equations and compare with recent results from
chiral perturbation theory in a finite volume.Comment: 28 pages, 5 figures, v2: minor changes, references updated, final
version published in Phys. Rev.
Renormalization Group Flow Equation at Finite Density
For the linear sigma model with quarks we derive renormalization group flow
equations for finite temperature and finite baryon density using the heat
kernel cutoff. At zero temperature we evolve the effective potential to the
Fermi momentum and compare the solutions of the full evolution equation with
those in the mean field approximation. We find a first order phase transition
either from a massive constituent quark phase to a mixed phase, where both
massive and massless quarks are present, or from a metastable constituent quark
phase at low density to a stable massless quark phase at high density. In the
latter solution, the formation of droplets of massless quarks is realized even
at low density.Comment: 30 pages, 9 figures; typos corrected, section 3 revised, one
reference added, two references updated, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Formulating Light Cone QCD on the Lattice
We present the near light cone Hamiltonian in lattice QCD depending on
the parameter , which gives the distance to the light cone. Since the
vacuum has zero momentum we can derive an effective Hamiltonian from
which is only quadratic in the momenta and therefore solvable by standard
methods. An approximate ground state wave functional is determined
variationally in the limit .Comment: 48 pages, 8 figure
Statistical Physics and Light-Front Quantization
Light-front quantization has important advantages for describing relativistic
statistical systems, particularly systems for which boost invariance is
essential, such as the fireball created in a heavy ion collisions. In this
paper we develop light-front field theory at finite temperature and density
with special attention to quantum chromodynamics. We construct the most general
form of the statistical operator allowed by the Poincare algebra and show that
there are no zero-mode related problems when describing phase transitions. We
then demonstrate a direct connection between densities in light-front thermal
field theory and the parton distributions measured in hard scattering
experiments. Our approach thus generalizes the concept of a parton distribution
to finite temperature. In light-front quantization, the gauge-invariant Green's
functions of a quark in a medium can be defined in terms of just 2-component
spinors and have a much simpler spinor structure than the equal-time fermion
propagator. From the Green's function, we introduce the new concept of a
light-front density matrix, whose matrix elements are related to forward and to
off-diagonal parton distributions. Furthermore, we explain how thermodynamic
quantities can be calculated in discretized light-cone quantization, which is
applicable at high chemical potential and is not plagued by the
fermion-doubling problem.Comment: 30 pages, 3 figures; v2: Refs. added, minor changes, accepted for
publication in PR
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