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Anomalous amplitudes in a thermal bath

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

I review the implications of the axial anomaly in a thermal bath. I assume that the Adler-Bardeen theorem applies at nonzero temperature, so that the divergence of the axial current remains is independent of temperature. Nevertheless, I argue that while the anomaly doesn't change with temperature, ``anomalous'' mesonic couplings do. This is verified by explicit calculations in a low temperature expansion, and near the chiral phase transition.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9804466,
  title  = {Anomalous amplitudes in a thermal bath},
  author = {R. D. Pisarski and T. L. Trueman and M. H. G. Tytgat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9804466},
  year   = {2008}
}

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11 pages, PTPTeX, to appear in the Proceedings of YKIS '97

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