Published 1997 | Version v1
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On π0 → γγ and the axial anomaly at T ≠ 0

  • 1. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY (United States). Physics Department

Description

In vacuum, in the chiral limit the coupling of a pion to two on-shell photons is directly related to the coefficient of the axial anomaly in QED. This relationship is lost at any nonzero temperature. Explicit calculations show that the coupling decreases with temperature and vanishes at Tc, the temperature of chiral symmetry restoration. (author)

Part of:
'97 QCD and high energy hadronic interactions

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Publishing Information

Publisher
Editions Frontieres
Imprint Place
Paris (France)
ISBN
2-86332-225-7
Imprint Title
'97 QCD and high energy hadronic interactions
Imprint Pagination
[687 p.]
Journal Page Range
p. 559-563

Conference

Title
32. Moriond Particle Physics Meeting
Dates
22-29 Mar 1997
Place
Les Arcs, Savoie (France)

INIS

Country of Publication
France
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
29063568
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
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Conference
Descriptors DEI
CHIRAL SYMMETRY; COUPLINGS; PHOTONS; PIONS NEUTRAL; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; WEAK PARTICLE DECAY
Descriptors DEC
BOSONS; DECAY; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; HADRONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MESONS; PARTICLE DECAY; PIONS; PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SYMMETRY

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