Related papers: The Problem of Mass: Mesonic Bound States Above Tc
We discuss the problem of mass, noting that meson masses decrease with increasing scale as the dynamically generated condensate of "soft glue" is melted (Brown/Rho scaling). We then extend the Bielefeld LGS color singlet interaction…
Given Brown/Rho scaling we thought of the mesons which are observed in Nambu-Jona Lasinio theory as collective modes. The pi, sigma, rho and A_1, should go smoothly through T_c as the temperature rose, going massless as T comes to T_c.
The hidden local symmetry effective theory, Wilsonian matched to QCD at a matching scale near the chiral scale $\sim 4\pi f_\pi$ as formulated by Harada and Yamawaki, presents a scenario drastically different from the standard scenario of…
Inhomogeneous pseudoscalar and scalar Bethe-Salpeter equations solved using a renormalisation-group-improved rainbow-ladder truncation exhibit bound state poles below and above T_c, the critical temperature for chiral symmetry restoration.…
We suggest that the "new form of matter" found just above $T_c$ by RHIC is made up of tightly bound quark-antiquark pairs, essentially 32 chirally restored (more precisely, nearly massless) mesons of the quantum numbers of $\pi$, $\sigma$,…
The proposed earlier relativistic mean-field model with hadron masses and coupling constants depending on the $\sigma$-meson field is generalized to finite temperatures. Within this approach we simulate the in-medium behavior of the hadron…
Leptons do not interact strongly with the hot dense medium created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. They can escape the interaction region undistorted and thus carry direct information about the space-time evolution of the expanding…
We perform systematical studies on transverse-mass spectra of $\pi^0$, $\eta$, $\omega$, $\phi$, $K^+$ and $K^-$ mesons for C + C, Ni + Ni, Au + Au collisions at SIS energies within the HSD transport approach. We find that the $m_T$-spectra…
We construct pi-pi amplitudes that fulfill exact elastic unitarity, account for one loop Chiral Perturbation Theory contributions and include all 1/Nc leading terms, with the only limitation of considering just the lowest-lying nonet of…
Production of resonances is considered in the framework of the single-freeze-out model of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. The formalism involves the virial expansion, where the probability to form a resonance in a two-body channel…
Recent developments in our description of RHIC and related heavy-ion phenomena in terms of hidden local symmetry theories are reviewed with a focus on the novel nearly massless states in the vicinity of -- both below and above -- the chiral…
The influence of Bose-Einstein statistics on multi-particle production characterized for various systems and energies by the STAR collaboration provides interesting information about the space-time dynamics of relativistic heavy-ion…
We report the measurements of the transverse momentum spectra and invariant mass distributions of $\Delta$(1232)$\to \pi p$, $K^*$(892)$^{0,\pm} \to \pi K$ and $\rho$(770)$^{0} \to \pi^{+} \pi^{-}$ in Au+Au and p+p collisions at…
We present a system size and energy dependence of $\phi$ meson production in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=62.4 GeV and 200 GeV measured by the STAR experiment at RHIC. We find that the number of participant scaled $\phi$…
The STAR experiment at RHIC has measured identified pi(+/-), K(+/-) and p(pbar) spectra and ratios from sqrt(s_NN) = 62.4 and 200 GeV Cu+Cu collisions. The new Cu+Cu results are studied with hydro-motivated blast-wave and statistical model…
Using constituent quarks coupled to a linear sigma model at nonzero temperature, I show that many anomalous mesonic amplitudes, such as $\pi^0 \rightarrow \gamma \gamma$, vanish in a chirally symmetric phase. Processes which are allowed,…
Thermal fits have consistently reproduced the experimental particles yields of heavy ion collisions, however, the proton to pion ratio from ALICE Pb+Pb $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV is over-predicted by thermal models- known at the $p/\pi$…
We construct the nature of the matter found in RHIC when its temperature has dropped down close to, and below, $T_c$. Just above $T_c$ it is composed of extremely strongly bound quark-antiquark pairs forming chirally restored mesons of the…
In the hadronic sector of relativistic heavy ion physics, the $\rho <=> 2\pi$ reaction is the strongest one, strong enough to equilibrate the $\rho$ with the pions throughout the region from chemical freezeout to thermal freezeout when…
Light mesons $(\sigma, \pi^0, \pi^\pm)$ are investigated in $T-\mu_B-\mu_I-eB$ space by using a two-flavor NJL model, which are related to the chiral symmetry restoration and pion superfluid phase transition. In $T-\mu_B-eB$ space, during…