Characteristics of the chiral phase transition in nonlocal quark models
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
The characteristics of the chiral phase transition are analyzed within the framework of chiral quark models with nonlocal interactions in the mean field approximation. In the chiral limit, we develop a semi-analytic framework which allows us to explicitly determine the phase transition curve, the position of the critical points, some relevant critical exponents, etc. For the case of finite current quark masses, we show the behavior of various thermodynamical and chiral response functions across the phase transition.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0410262,
title = {Characteristics of the chiral phase transition in nonlocal quark models},
author = {D. Gomez Dumm and N. N. Scoccola},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0410262},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
19 pages, 5 figures. Figures 1 and 2 modified, references added, minor changes in the presentation and in the discussion of results. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C