Published July 20, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Chiral symmetry restoration at finite temperature in the planar limit

  • 1. Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199 (United States)
  • 2. Rutgers University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Piscataway, NJ 08855 (United States)

Description

We investigate numerically chiral symmetry restoration at finite temperature in the planar limit in the deconfined phase, both when it is stable and when the system is supercooled. We find chiral symmetry restoration at Tχ=Td, where Td is the temperature of the deconfinement transition in pure gauge theory and Tχ<Td in the supercooled deconfined phase. In the stable case the spectrum of the Dirac operator opens a gap in a discontinuous manner and in the supercooled phase the gap seems to vanish continuously

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2006.05.081;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-th/0605173v1;
PII
S0370-2693(06)00700-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
638
Journal Issue
5-6
Journal Page Range
p. 546-551
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38062627
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
CHIRAL SYMMETRY; CHIRALITY; DIRAC OPERATORS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SYMMETRY

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Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.