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Polyakov Loop at Finite Temperature in Chiral Quark Models

2004/10/04 by Eugenio Megías, E. Megias, Megias, E. +4
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0410053

6 p., talk presented at Bled 2004: Quark Dynamics, Bled (Slovenia), 12-19 July 2004

arxiv created 2004/10/04 · openalex publication_date 2004/10/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

At finite temperature, chiral quark models do not incorporate large gauge invariance which implies genuinely non-perturbative finite temperature gluonic degrees of freedom. Motivated by this observation, we describe how the coupling of the Polyakov loop as an independent degree of freedom to quarks not only accounts for large gauge invariance, but also allows to establish in a dynamical way the interaction between composite hadronic states such as Goldstone bosons to finite temperature non-perturbative gluons in a medium which can undergo a confinement-deconfinement phase transition.

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