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Functional dependence of axial anomaly via mesonic fluctuations in the three flavor linear sigma model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-09-02 v3

Abstract

Temperature dependence of the UA(1)U_A(1) anomaly is investigated by taking into account mesonic fluctuations in the U(3)×U(3)U(3)\times U(3) linear sigma model. A field dependent anomaly coefficient function of the effective potential is calculated within the finite temperature functional renormalization group approach. The applied approximation scheme is a generalization of the chiral invariant expansion technique developed in [G. Fejos, Phys. Rev. D 90, 096011 (2014)]. We provide an analytic expression and also numerical evidence that depending on the relationship between the two quartic couplings, mesonic fluctuations can either strengthen of weaken the anomaly as a function of the temperature. The role of the six-point invariant of the U(3)×U(3)U(3)\times U(3) group, and therefore the stability of the chiral expansion is also discussed in detail.

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@article{arxiv.1506.07399,
  title  = {Functional dependence of axial anomaly via mesonic fluctuations in the three flavor linear sigma model},
  author = {G. Fejos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.07399},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures, minor changes, Published in Phys. Rev. D