Chiral symmetry restoration for the large-N pion gas

We analyze chiral restoration within the O(N + 1)/ O(N) nonlinear sigma model for large N as an effective theory for low-energy QCD at finite temperature T. The free energy is constructed diagrammatically to O(TM^3) in the pion mass expansion, which allows us to derive the quark condensate and the s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Cortés, Santiago, Gómez Nicola, Ángel, Morales, John
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/18274
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18274
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:51-73
Nonlinear sigma-model
Finite-temperature
Perturbation-theory
One-loop
Phase-transition
Expansion
Limit
Física-Modelos matemáticos
Física matemática
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Sumario:We analyze chiral restoration within the O(N + 1)/ O(N) nonlinear sigma model for large N as an effective theory for low-energy QCD at finite temperature T. The free energy is constructed diagrammatically to O(TM^3) in the pion mass expansion, which allows us to derive the quark condensate and the scalar susceptibility in the chiral limit. At this order, we do not have to deal with renormalization, either from divergences from mass tadpoles or from those of higher order loop contributions. Our results for the critical behavior are consistent with expectations from lattice analysis and with previous works where the susceptibility is saturated by the thermal f₀(500) pole.