Thermal phase transition in the NJL model of QCD

2004/10/31 by Costas Strouthos, C. G. Strouthos
Physics and Astronomy · #Condensed matter physics #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Massless particle #Mathematical physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Phase transition #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quark #Renormalization group #Theoretical physics #Thermal #Thermodynamics #Universality (dynamical systems) #hep-lat #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2004.12.030

published as Nucl.Phys. A749 (2005) 182-185 · 4 pages, Presented at "Phase Transitions in Strongly Interacting Matter", Prague, 23 - 29 August 2004

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Abstract

We present results from numerical studies of the NJL model with two massless quarks at nonzero temperature. We show that the model undergoes a second order chiral phase transition which belongs to the 3d O(4) spin model universality class.

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