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Second order chiral phase transition in three flavor quantum chromodynamics?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-05-03 v2

Abstract

We calculate the renormalization group flows of all perturbatively renormalizable interactions in the three-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau potential for the chiral phase transition of three-flavor quantum chromodynamics. On the contrary to the common belief we find a fixed point in the system that is able to describe a second-order phase transition in the infrared. This shows that long-standing assumptions on the transition order might be false. If the transition is indeed of second-order, our results may hint that the axial U(1)U(1) symmetry restores at the transition temperature.

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@article{arxiv.2201.07909,
  title  = {Second order chiral phase transition in three flavor quantum chromodynamics?},
  author = {G. Fejos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.07909},
  year   = {2022}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure

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