Phenomenology of the three-flavor PNJL model and thermal strange quark production

2008/11/30 by Hung-Ming Tsai, Berndt Müller
Physics and Astronomy · #Bar (unit) #Deconfinement #Gluon #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Phenomenology (philosophy) #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #Quark #Quark–gluon plasma #Strange quark #Symmetry breaking #Thermal #Thermal quantum field theory #Thermodynamics #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/36/7/075101

published as J.Phys.G36:075101,2009 · 18 pages, 13 figures, published version

openalex publication_date 2009/04/29 · arxiv created 2009/07/22 · arxiv updated 2010/04/28 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We study the temperature dependence of the adjoint Polyakov loop and its implication for the momentum spectrum of gluons in the mean-field approximation. This allows us to calculate the contribution of the thermal (transverse) gluons to the thermodynamic pressure. As an application, we evaluate the rates for the strange quark pair-production processes and as functions of temperature including thermal effects on quark deconfinement and chiral symmetry breaking.

Citations

• Strangeness in relativistic heavy ion collisions
• Renormalized Polyakov loops in many representations
• Polyakov loop in different representations of SU(3) at finite temperature
• Polyakov loop, diquarks, and the two-flavor phase diagram
• Strangeness Production in the Quark-Gluon Plasma