Confinement versus Chiral Symmetry

2003/08/31 by Agnes Mocsy, Ágnes Mócsy, Francesco Sannino +1 · 10 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-lat #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.92.182302

published as Phys.Rev.Lett.92:182302,2004 · RevTeX 4, 4 pages, 1 eps figure, version to appear in PRL

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Abstract

We construct an effective Lagrangian which illustrates why color deconfines when chiral symmetry is restored in hot gauge theories with quarks in the fundamental representation. For quarks in the adjoint representation we show that, while deconfinement and the chiral transition do not need to coincide, entanglement between them is still present. Extension to the chemical potential driven transition is discussed.

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