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Thermal pion masses in the second phase: $|\mu_{I}| >m_{\pi}$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v3

Abstract

Density and thermal corrections to the mass of the pions are studied in the framework of the SU(2) low energy effective chiral lagrangian, in terms of the isospin chemical potential μ\tinI\mu_\tin{I}. We concentrate the discussion in the region where the isospin chemical potential (absolute value) becomes bigger than the pion mass at zero temperature and density, i.e. in the phase where the condensed π\pi^- phase appears (for negative chemical potential). We are able to calculate the thermal and density evolution of masses in the limits where μIm|\mu_{I}|\gg m and where μIm|\mu_{I}| \gtrsim m. We also identified the phase transition curve.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0404232,
  title  = {Thermal pion masses in the second phase: $|\mu_{I}| >m_{\pi}$},
  author = {M. Loewe and C. Villavicencio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0404232},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, 13 figures. Published in Physical Review D70