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Studying pion effects on the chiral phase transition

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

We investigate the chiral phase transition at finite temperatures and zero chemical potential with Dyson-Schwinger equations. Our truncation for the quark-gluon interaction includes mesonic degrees of freedom, which allows us to study the impact of the pions on the nature of the phase transition. Within the present scheme we find a five percent change of the critical temperature due to the pion backreaction whereas the mean field character of the transition is not changed.

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@article{arxiv.0811.2923,
  title  = {Studying pion effects on the chiral phase transition},
  author = {J. A. Mueller and C. S. Fischer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.2923},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

2 pages, 2 figures, talk given by J.A.M. at the 30th International School of Nuclear Physics, Erice, Sicily from 16 - 24 September 2008

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