Nonequilibrium chiral perturbation theory and pion decay functions

We extend chiral perturbation theory to study a meson gas out of thermal equilibrium. Assuming that the system is initially in equilibrium at T-i < T-c and working within the Schwinger-Keldysh contour technique, we define consistently the time-dependent temporal and spatial pion decay functions,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Gómez Nicola, Ángel, Galán González, V.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:1999
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/59584
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59584
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:51-73
Qcd phase-Transition
Finite-temperature
Equilibrium
Evolution
Energy
Field
Física-Modelos matemáticos
Física matemática
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Sumario:We extend chiral perturbation theory to study a meson gas out of thermal equilibrium. Assuming that the system is initially in equilibrium at T-i < T-c and working within the Schwinger-Keldysh contour technique, we define consistently the time-dependent temporal and spatial pion decay functions, the counterparts of the pion decay constants, and calculate them to next to leading order. The link with curved space-time QFT allows to establish nonequilibrium renormalisation. The short-time behaviour and the applicability of our model to a heavy-ion collision plasma are also discussed in this work.