307 research outputs found
Influence of the isospin and hypercharge chemical potentials on the location of the CEP in the mu_B-T phase diagram of the SU(3)_L x SU(3)_R chiral quark model
We investigate the influence of the asymmetric quark matter (rho_u\ne
rho_d\ne rho_s) on the mass of the quasiparticles and the phase diagram of the
chiral quark model parametrized at one-loop level of the renormalized theory,
using the optimized perturbation theory for the resummation of the perturbative
series. The effect of various chemical potentials introduced in the grand
canonical ensemble is investigated with the method of relativistic many-body
theory. The temperature dependence of the topological susceptibility is
estimated with the help of the Witten-Veneziano mass formula.Comment: RevTeX4, 13 pages, 6 figures, version accepted for publication in
Phys. Rev.
Influence of the Polyakov loop on the chiral phase transition in the two flavor chiral quark model
The SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R chiral quark model consisting of the (sigma,pi) meson
multiplet and the constituent quarks propagating on the homogeneous background
of a temporal gauge field is solved at finite temperature and quark baryon
chemical potential mu_q using an expansion in the number of flavors N_f, both
in the chiral limit and for the physical value of the pion mass. Keeping the
fermion propagator at its tree-level, several approximations to the pion
propagator are investigated. These approximations correspond to different
partial resummations of the perturbative series. Comparing their solution with
a diagrammatically formulated resummation relying on a strict large-N_f
expansion of the perturbative series one concludes that only when the local
part of the approximated pion propagator resums infinitely many orders in 1/N_f
of fermionic contributions a sufficiently rapid crossover transition at mu_q=0
is achieved allowing for the existence of a tricritical point or a critical end
point in the mu_q-T phase diagram. The renormalization and the possibility of
determining the counterterms in the resummation provided by a strict large-N_f
expansion are investigated.Comment: 20 pages, 7 figures, 5 graphs, and 3 tables; uses revtex4-1, minor
corrections and investigation of the influence of the pion-fermion
setting-sun integral on the field equations for the Polyakov loop and its
conjugate. Version published in the Phys. Rev. D journa
Systematics of High Temperature Perturbation Theory: The Two-Loop Electron Self-Energy in QED
In order to investigate the systematics of the loop expansion in high
temperature gauge theories beyond the leading order hard thermal loop (HTL)
approximation, we calculate the two-loop electron proper self-energy in high
temperature QED. The two-loop bubble diagram contains a linear infrared
divergence. Even if regulated with a non-zero photon mass M of order of the
Debye mass, this infrared sensitivity implies that the two-loop self-energy
contributes terms to the fermion dispersion relation that are comparable to or
even larger than the next-to-leading-order (NLO) contributions at one-loop.
Additional evidence for the necessity of a systematic restructuring of the loop
expansion comes from the explicit gauge parameter dependence of the fermion
damping rate at both one and two-loops. The leading terms in the high
temperature expansion of the two-loop self-energy for all topologies arise from
an explicit hard-soft factorization pattern, in which one of the loop integrals
is hard, nested inside a second loop integral which is soft. There are no
hard-hard contributions to the two-loop Sigma at leading order at high T.
Provided the same factorization pattern holds for arbitrary ell loops, the NLO
high temperature contributions to the electron self-energy come from ell-1 hard
loops factorized with one soft loop integral. This hard-soft pattern is both a
necessary condition for the resummation over ell to coincide with the one-loop
self-energy calculated with HTL dressed propagators and vertices, and to yield
the complete NLO correction to the self-energy at scales ~eT, which is both
infrared finite and gauge invariant. We employ spectral representations and the
Gaudin method for evaluating finite temperature Matsubara sums, which
facilitates the analysis of multi-loop diagrams at high T.Comment: 63 pages, 10 figures. Published version. Main differences from v1:
(1) Gaudin method explained in more detail; (2) Full expression (3.9) for
Two-Loop Bubble Self-Energy with no need to expand in M; (3) Appendix C
eliminated and incorporated in Secs. 4 and 5; (4) Examples of the breakdown
of HTL resummation added to summary and Discussion in Sec.
Beyond HTL: The Classical Kinetic Theory of Landau Damping for Selfinteracting Scalar Fields in the Broken Phase
The effective theory of low frequency fluctuations of selfinteracting scalar
fields is constructed in the broken symmetry phase. The theory resulting from
integrating fluctuations with frequencies much above the spontanously generated
mass scale is found to be local. Non-local dynamics, especially
Landau damping emerges under the effect of fluctuations in the
region. A kinetic theory of relativistic scalar gas particles interacting via
their locally variable mass with the low frequency scalar field is shown to be
equivalent to this effective field theory for scales below the characteristic
mass, that is beyond the accuracy of the Hard Thermal Loop (HTL) approximation.Comment: 5 pages, Latex, uses sprocl.sty, to be published in the Proceedings
of SEWM 98 Conference Copenhagen, Denmark 2-5 December 199
The effect of the Polyakov loop on the chiral phase transition
The Polyakov loop is included in the SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R chiral quark-meson
model by considering the propagation of the constituent quarks, coupled to the
(sigma,pi) meson multiplet, on the homogeneous background of a temporal gauge
field, diagonal in color space. The model is solved at finite temperature and
quark baryon chemical potential both in the chiral limit and for the physical
value of the pion mass by using an expansion in the number of flavors N_f.
Keeping the fermion propagator at its tree-level, a resummation on the pion
propagator is constructed which resums infinitely many orders in 1/N_f, where
O(1/N_f) represents the order at which the fermions start to contribute in the
pion propagator. The influence of the Polyakov loop on the tricritical or the
critical point in the mu_q-T phase diagram is studied for various forms of the
Polyakov loop potential.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, uses svepjCONF.clo, contribution to the
International Workshop on Hot & Cold Baryonic Matter 2010, 15-20 August,
Budapest, Hungar
The Economic Situation of Individual (Family) Farms in Hungary
Combined elaboration of the first and second parts of papers prepared for presentation at the IAMO FORUM 2007 Halle, Germany 24-29 June 2007 and the IAAE-EAAE 104th seminar Budapest, Hungary 6-8 September 2007. In 2003 a research study looked at the position of smallholders; the survey was carried out using questionnaires and interviews. The farms included in the survey were situated in 3 counties in the Southern Great Plain of Hungary and in 3 counties of the western part of the country (Transdanubia). The results of the survey showed that there was a firm tendency of concentration among the Hungarian individual farms. Though their average size is about 3 ha, the number and area of farms over 50 ha size are rapidly growing and taking a significant part of the total individual agricultural area. The number of small farms is great but their total farming area is relatively small. The concentration takes place primarily due to renting. The land market is sluggish mainly owing to the land-buying restrictions and the small intention to sell of those owners who are waiting for higher prices. Land prices are low but rising, especially on the Western border of the country, near to Austria. The dominance of arable production and within that cereal production, especially on the larger individual farms, points to a prevalence of extensive farming The present support and subsidy system fortifies this tendency. When comparing the Southern Plain with western Transdanubia, it can be said that agricultural production is greater in the former region and more people are involved in agriculture. There is a higher share of under-cover production of vegetables and ornamental plants and animal husbandry. However, it seems that in western Transdanubia the spirit of enterprise is stronger than in the Southern Plain: more farmers enter into contractual agreements, more farmers make use of credits and subsidies, and the farms operate with greater profitability. Nevertheless, the proximity of western Transdanubia to industrial and service centers and, furthermore, its closeness to Austria tend to suppress agricultural activities. The regression analyses with respect to efficiency and profitability and the cluster analyses supported the assessments of the descriptive analyses and produced the following main conclusions: the larger farms, farmed by younger and better-educated individuals, are more efficient and profitable than the others. Furthermore, farmers with significant conceptions for development seem to achieve greater profitability.agricultural production, family farms, land tenure, land use, trade, finances, profitability, Consumer/Household Economics, Farm Management,
Effect of the scalar condensate on the linear gauge field response in the Abelian Higgs model
The effective equations of motion for low-frequency mean gauge fields in the
Abelian Higgs model are investigated in the presence of a scalar condensate,
near the high temperature equilibrium. We determine the current induced by an
inhomogeneous background gauge field in the linear response approximation up to
order , assuming adiabatic variation of the scalar fields. The physical
degrees of freedom are found and a physical gauge choice for the numerical
study of the combined Higgs+gauge evolution is proposed.Comment: 11 pages, latex, no figure
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