187 research outputs found
Impact of baryon resonances on the chiral phase transition at finite temperature and density
We study the phase diagram of a generalized chiral SU(3)-flavor model in
mean-field approximation. In particular, the influence of the baryon
resonances, and their couplings to the scalar and vector fields, on the
characteristics of the chiral phase transition as a function of temperature and
baryon-chemical potential is investigated. Present and future finite-density
lattice calculations might constrain the couplings of the fields to the
baryons. The results are compared to recent lattice QCD calculations and it is
shown that it is non-trivial to obtain, simultaneously, stable cold nuclear
matter.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figure
In-medium vector meson masses in a Chiral SU(3) model
A significant drop of the vector meson masses in nuclear matter is observed
in a chiral SU(3) model due to the effects of the baryon Dirac sea. This is
taken into account through the summation of baryonic tadpole diagrams in the
relativistic Hartree approximation. The appreciable decrease of the in-medium
vector meson masses is due to the vacuum polarisation effects from the nucleon
sector and is not observed in the mean field approximation.Comment: 26 pages including 10 figures; the text has been modified for clarit
Nuclear and Neutron Star Radii
We investigate the correlation between nuclear neutron radii and the radius
of neutron stars. We use a well-established hadronic SU(3) model based on
chiral symmetry that naturally includes non-linear vector meson and scalar
meson - vector meson couplings. The relative strengths of the couplings modify
the nuclear isospin-dependent interactions. We study the dependence of nuclear
and neutron star radii on the coupling strengths. The relevance of the results
for parity-violating electron-nucleus scattering and the URCA process in
neutron stars is discussed
Phase Structure in a Hadronic Chiral Model
We study the phase diagram of a hadronic chiral flavor-SU(3) model. Heavy
baryon resonances can induce a phase structure that matches current results
from lattice-QCD calculations at finite temperature and baryon density.
Furthermore, we determine trajectories of constant entropy per net baryon in
the phase diagram.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Critical Review Of Quark Gluon Plasma Signals
Compelling evidence for a new form of matter has been claimed to be formed in
Pb+Pb collisions at SPS. We critically review two suggested signatures for this
new state of matter: First the suppression of the J/, which should be
strongly suppressed in the QGP by two different mechanisms, the color-screening
and the QCD-photoeffect. Secondly the measured particle, in particular strange
hadronic, ratios might signal the freeze-out from a quark-gluon phase.Comment: 7 pages 6 figures, Contribution to the Proceedings of CRIS 2000, 3rd
Catania Relativistic Ion Studies, Acicastello, Italy, May 22-26, 200
Particle ratios at RHIC: Effective hadron masses and chemical freeze-out
The measured particle ratios in central heavy-ion collisions at RHIC-BNL are
investigated within a chemical and thermal equilibrium chiral SU(3)
\sigma-\omega approach. The commonly adopted noninteracting gas calculations
yield temperatures close to or above the critical temperature for the chiral
phase transition, but without taking into account any interactions. Contrary,
the chiral SU(3) model predicts temperature and density dependent effective
hadron masses and effective chemical potentials in the medium and a transition
to a chirally restored phase at high temperatures or chemical potentials. Three
different parametrizations of the model, which show different types of phase
transition behaviour, are investigated. We show that if a chiral phase
transition occured in those collisions, ''freezing'' of the relative hadron
abundances in the symmetric phase is excluded by the data. Therefore, either
very rapid chemical equilibration must occur in the broken phase, or the
measured hadron ratios are the outcome of the dynamical symmetry breaking.
Furthermore, the extracted chemical freeze-out parameters differ considerably
from those obtained in simple noninteracting gas calculations. In particular,
the three models yield up to 35 MeV lower temperatures than the free gas
approximation. The in-medium masses turn out differ up to 150 MeV from their
vacuum values.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure
Effects of Dirac sea polarization on hadronic properties - A chiral SU(3) approach
The effect of vacuum fluctuations on the in-medium hadronic properties is
investigated using a chiral SU(3) model in the nonlinear realization. The
effect of the baryon Dirac sea is seen to modify hadronic properties and in
contrast to a calculation in mean field approximation it is seen to give rise
to a significant drop of the vector meson masses in hot and dense matter. This
effect is taken into account through the summation of baryonic tadpole diagrams
in the relativistic Hartree approximation (RHA), where the baryon self energy
is modified due to interactions with both the non-strange and the
strange scalar fields.Comment: 25 pages including 13 figures,figure styles modified,few clarifying
sentences added in text, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Current Status of Quark Gluon Plasma Signals
Compelling evidence for the creation of a new form of matter has been claimed
to be found in Pb+Pb collisions at SPS. We discuss the uniqueness of often
proposed experimental signatures for quark matter formation in relativistic
heavy ion collisions. It is demonstrated that so far none of the proposed
signals like J\psi meson production/suppression, strangeness enhancement,
dileptons, and directed flow unambigiously show that a phase of deconfined
matter has been formed in SPS Pb+Pb collisions. We emphasize the need for
systematic future measurements to search for simultaneous irregularities in the
excitation functions of several observables in order to come close to pinning
the properties of hot, dense QCD matter from data.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the Symposium on Fundamental
Issues in Elementary Matter In Honor and Memory of Michael Danos 241.
WE-Heraeus-Seminar Bad Honnef, Germany, 25--29 September 2000. To appear in
Heavy Ion Phy
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