The SU(2) and SU(3) chiral phase transitions within chiral perturbation theory

The SU(2) and SU(3) chiral phase transitions in a gas made of pions, kaons, and etas are studied within the framework of chiral perturbation theory. We describe the temperature dependence of the quark condensates by using the meson meson scattering phase shifts in a second order virial expansion. In...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Peláez Sagredo, José Ramón
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2002
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/59870
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59870
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:51-73
One-loop
Form-factors
Meson interactions
Virial expansion
Quark mass
Pion gas
Scattering
Qcd
Unitarization
Lagrangians
Física-Modelos matemáticos
Física matemática
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Sumario:The SU(2) and SU(3) chiral phase transitions in a gas made of pions, kaons, and etas are studied within the framework of chiral perturbation theory. We describe the temperature dependence of the quark condensates by using the meson meson scattering phase shifts in a second order virial expansion. In particular, the SU(3) formalism yields a somewhat lower melting temperature for the nonstrange condensates than within SU(2), and also predicts that the strange condensate melting is slower than that of the nonstrange, due to the different strange and nonstrange quark masses.