73 research outputs found
Heavy Quark Free Energies and Screening in SU(2) Gauge Theory
We investigate the singlet, triplet and colour average heavy quark free
energies in SU(2) pure gauge theory at various temperatures T. We focus on the
long distance behaviour of the free energies, studying in particular the
temperature dependence of the string tension and the screening masses. The
results are qualitatively similar to the SU(3) scenario, except near the
critical temperature Tc of the deconfining transition. Finally we test a
recently proposed method to renormalize the Polyakov loop.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, contribution to the Proceedings of SEWM 2002
(Heidelberg
Electroweak phase diagram at finite lepton number density
We study the thermodynamics of the electroweak theory at a finite lepton
number density. The phase diagram of the theory is calculated by relating the
full 4-dimensional theory to a 3-dimensional effective theory which has been
previously solved using nonperturbative methods. It is seen that the critical
temperature increases and the value of the Higgs boson mass at which the first
order phase transition line ends decreases with increasing leptonic chemical
potential.Comment: 16 pages, 14 figures, RevTex4, v2: references added, minor
corrections, v3: small changes, references added, published in Phys. Rev.
Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry in the Large Hadron Collider
The matter-antimatter asymmetry is one of the greatest challenges in the
modern physics. The universe including this paper and even the reader
him(her)self seems to be built up of ordinary matter only. Theoretically, the
well-known Sakharov's conditions remain the solid framework explaining the
circumstances that matter became dominant against the antimatter while the
universe cools down and/or expands. On the other hand, the standard model for
elementary particles apparently prevents at least two conditions out of them.
In this work, we introduce a systematic study of the antiparticle-to-particle
ratios measured in various and collisions over the last three
decades. It is obvious that the available experimental facilities turn to be
able to perform nuclear collisions, in which the matter-antimatter asymmetry
raises from at AGS to at LHC. Assuming that the final
state of hadronization in the nuclear collisions takes place along the
freezeout line, which is defined by a constant entropy density, various
antiparticle-to-particle ratios are studied in framework of the hadron
resonance gas (HRG) model. Implementing modified phase space and distribution
function in the grand-canonical ensemble and taking into account the
experimental acceptance, the ratios of antiparticle-to-particle over the whole
range of center-of-mass-energies are very well reproduced by the HRG model.
Furthermore, the antiproton-to-proton ratios measured by ALICE in
collisions is also very well described by the HRG model. It is likely to
conclude that the LHC heavy-ion program will produce the same particle ratios
as the program implying the dynamics and evolution of the system would not
depend on the initial conditions. The ratios of bosons and baryons get very
close to unity indicating that the matter-antimatter asymmetry nearly vanishes
at LHC.Comment: 9 pages, 5 eps-figures, revtex4-styl
Amplification of hypercharge electromagnetic fields by a cosmological pseudoscalar
If, in addition to the standard model fields, a new pseudoscalar field exists
and couples to hypercharge topological number density, it can exponentially
amplify hyperelectric and hypermagnetic fields in the symmetric phase of the
electroweak plasma, while coherently rolling or oscillating. We present the
equations describing the coupled system of a pseudoscalar field and hypercharge
electromagnetic fields in the electroweak plasma at temperatures above the
electroweak phase transition, discuss approximations to the equations, and
their validity. We then solve the approximate equations using assorted
analytical and numerical methods, and determine the parameters for which
hypercharge electromagnetic fields can be exponentially amplified.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figure
Cascade and anti-cascade production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 158 GeV/c per nucleon
Results of the production of Xi and Xi-bar hyperons in central Pb+Pb
interactions at 158 GeV/c per nucleon are presented. This analysis utilises a
global reconstruction procedure, which allows a measurement of 4pi integrated
yields to be made for the first time. Inverse slope paramters, which are
determined from an exponential fit to the transverse mass spectra, are shown.
Central rapidity densities are found to be 1.49 +- 0.08 and 0.33 +- 0.04 per
event per unit of rapidity for Xi and Xi-bar respectively. Yields integrated to
full phase space are 4.12 +- 0.02 and 0.77 +- 0.04 for Xi and Xi-bar. The ratio
of Xi-bar/Xi at mid-rapidity is 0.22 +- 0.03.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure
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