A phenomenological treatment of chiral symmetry restoration and deconfinement

DOI10.1016/S0920-5632(03)01599-8zbMATH Open1097.81888arXivhep-lat/0208073OpenAlexW2006551877WikidataQ113099088 ScholiaQ113099088MaRDI QIDQ1409574FDOQ1409574

Authors: Peter N. Meisinger, Travis R. Miller, Michael C. Ogilvie 

Publication date: 13 October 2003

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B. Proceedings Supplements (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A phenomenological expression for the thermodynamic potential of gluons and quarks is constructed which incorporates the features of deconfinement and chiral symmetry restoration known from lattice simulations. The thermodynamic potential is a function of the Polyakov loop and chiral condensate expectation values. The gluonic sector uses a successful model for pure (SU(N_c)) gauge theories in which the Polyakov loop eigenvalues are the fundamental order parameters for deconfinement. The quark sector is given by a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model in which a constant background (A_0) field couples the chiral condensate to the Polyakov loop. We consider the case of (N_f = 2) in detail. For two massless quarks, we find a second order chiral phase transition. Confinement effects push the transition to higher temperatures, but the entropy associated with the gluonic sector acts in the opposite direction. For light mass quarks, only a rapid crossover occurs. For sufficiently heavy quarks, a first order deconfinement transition emerges. This simplest model has one adjustable parameter, which can be set from the chiral transition temperature for light quarks. It predicts all thermodynamic quantities as well as the behavior of the chiral condensate and the Polyakov loop over a wide range of temperatures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0208073

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zbMATH Keywords

thermodynamic potentialsecond order chiral phase transitionSU(N\(_c\)) gauge theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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