17 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
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
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
The scalar-isoscalar spectral function of strong matter in a large N approximation
The enhancement of the scalar-isoscalar spectral function near the two-pion
threshold is studied in the framework of an effective linear model,
using a large N approximation in the number of the Goldstone bosons. The effect
is rather insensitive to the detailed T=0 characteristics of the pole,
it is accounted by a pole moving with increasing along the real axis of the
second Riemann sheet towards the threshold location from below.Comment: 5 pages, poster presented at SEWM2002, Heidelberg, October 200
Sensitivity of the chiral phase transition of QCD to the scalar meson sector
Gribov's theory of light quark confinement implies the existence of two kinds
of scalar bound states. The phase diagram of the three-flavor QCD is mapped out
in the (m_pi-m_K)-plane with help of the SU_L(3)xSU_R(3) linear sigma model
supplemented with the assumption that the masses of the so-called superbound
scalars do not change under the variation of the pion and kaon mass. The phase
boundary along the m_pi=m_K line is found in the interval 15 MeV<m_crit<25 MeV,
irrespective which f_0-sigma linear combination is identified with the pure
superbound state.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, presented at the Gribov-75 Memorial Workshop on
Quarks, Hadrons, and Strong Interactions, Budapest, Hungary, 22-24 May 200
Coupled gap equations for the screening masses in the SU(2) Higgs model
The complete set of static screening masses is determined for the SU(2) Higgs
model from one-loop coupled gap equations. Results from the version, containing
scalar fields both in the fundamental and adjoint representations are compared
with the model arising when the integration over the adjoint scalar field is
performed. A non-perturbative and non-linear mapping between the couplings of
the two models is proposed, which exhibits perfect decoupling of the heavy
adjoint scalar field. Also the alternative of a gauge invariant mass
resummation is investigated in the high temperature phase.Comment: 15 pages, Latex, 7 eps figures included, uses epsf.sty, minor
corrections, conclusions unchange