Topological susceptibility and fourth cumulant in a uniform magnetic field

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2022.115853zbMATH Open1500.81069arXiv2203.00200OpenAlexW4281696511MaRDI QIDQ2159772FDOQ2159772

Authors: Prabal Adhikari 

Publication date: 2 August 2022

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

Abstract: We study the topological susceptibility and fourth cumulant of the QCD vacuum in a background magnetic field using three-flavor chiral perturbation theory ($chi$PT) for arbitrary quark masses and $n$-flavor $chi$PT with degenerate quark masses. We find that the enhancement of the topological susceptibility is larger in the three-flavor $chi$PT compared to two-flavor $chi$PT. Additionally, in comparing the fourth cumulant, we find that its suppression is comparable for magnetic fields, $eHlesssim0.8m_{pi}^2$, and weaker for larger magnetic fields in three-flavor $chi$PT with its enhancement beginning at a significantly lower critical magnetic field compared to two-flavor $chi$PT. We also find that the enhancement of the topological susceptibility in $n$-flavor $chi$PT with degenerate quarks is significantly larger and the suppression of the topological cumulant significantly greater at weak fields with the critical magnetic field pushed out to larger magnetic fields compared to both two and three-flavor $chi$PT.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00200

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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