Running coupling at finite temperature and chiral symmetry restoration in QCD

Details Running coupling at finite temperature and chiral symmetry restoration in QCD Running coupling at finite temperature and chiral symmetry restoration in QCD

2005-12-07

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0512085v2

Phys.Lett.B645:53-58,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

6 pages, 3 figures; references added, results updated and discussion expanded (matches PLB version)

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physletb.2006.11.059

We analyze the running gauge coupling at finite temperature for QCD, using the functional renormalization group. The running of the coupling is calculated for all scales and temperatures. At finite temperature, the coupling is governed by a fixed point of the 3-dimensional theory for scales smaller than the corresponding temperature. The running coupling can drive the quark sector to criticality, resulting in chiral symmetry breaking. Our results provide for a quantitative determination of the phase boundary in the plane of temperature and number of massless flavors. Using the experimental value of the coupling at the tau mass scale as the only input parameter, we obtain, e.g., for N_f=3 massless flavors a critical temperature of T_cr ~ 148 MeV in good agreement with lattice simulations.

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