Connection between Chiral Symmetry Restoration and Deconfinement
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-07 v3 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We propose a simple explanation for the connection between chiral symmetry restoration and deconfinement in QCD at high temperature. In the Higgs description of the QCD vacuum both spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and effective gluon masses are generated by the condensate of a color octet quark-antiquark pair. The transition to the high temperature state proceeds by the melting of this condensate. Quarks and gluons become (approximately) massless at the same critical temperature. For instanton-dominated effective multiquark interactions and three light quarks with equal mass we find a first order phase transition at a critical temperature around 170 MeV.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0102044,
title = {Connection between Chiral Symmetry Restoration and Deconfinement},
author = {Christof Wetterich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0102044},
year = {2009}
}
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