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Baryons in the plasma: in-medium effects and parity doubling

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2018-03-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We investigate the fate of baryons made out of u, d and s quarks in the hadronic gas and the quark-gluon plasma, using nonperturbative lattice simulations, employing the FASTSUM anisotropic Nf=2+1 ensembles. In the confined phase a strong temperature dependence is seen in the masses of the negative-parity groundstates, while the positive-parity groundstate masses are approximately temperature independent, within the error. At high temperature parity doubling emerges. A noticeable effect of the heavier s quark is seen. We give a simple description of the medium-dependent masses for the negative-parity states and speculate on the relevance for heavy-ion phenomenology via the hadron resonance gas.

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@article{arxiv.1710.00566,
  title  = {Baryons in the plasma: in-medium effects and parity doubling},
  author = {Gert Aarts and Chris Allton and Davide de Boni and Simon Hands and Benjamin Jäger and Chrisanthi Praki and Jon-Ivar Skullerud},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.00566},
  year   = {2018}
}

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4 pages, presented at Strangeness in Quark Matter, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 10-15 July 2017