What Hath RHIC Wrought ? : The Chiral Restoration Phase Transition Found at RHIC

2004/08/24 by G. E. Brown, Brown, G. E., C. -H. Lee +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0408253

5 pages, 1 figure, contribution to INPC2004

arxiv created 2004/08/24 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Given Brown/Rho scaling we thought of the mesons which are observed in Nambu-Jona Lasinio theory as collective modes. The pi, sigma, rho and A₁, should go smoothly through T_c as the temperature rose, going massless as T comes to T_c.

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