Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-05-17
Phys.Rev.D61:065002,2000
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Revised version to appear in Phys. Rev. D. 42 pages, 4 figures, uses Revtex
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.61.065002
The anomalous pseudoscalar-photon vertex is studied in real time in and out of equilibrium in a constituent quark model. The goal is to understand the in-medium modifications of this vertex, exploring the possibility of enhanced isospin breaking by electromagnetic effects as well as the formation of neutral pion condensates in a rapid chiral phase transition in peripheral, ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. In equilibrium the effective vertex is afflicted by infrared and collinear singularities that require hard thermal loop (HTL) and width corrections of the quark propagator. The resummed effective equilibrium vertex vanishes near the chiral transition in the chiral limit. In a strongly out of equilibrium chiral phase transition we find that the chiral condensate drastically modifies the quark propagators and the effective vertex. The ensuing dynamics for the neutral pion results in a potential enhancement of isospin breaking and the formation of $\pi^0$ condensates. While the anomaly equation and the axial Ward identity are not modified by the medium in or out of equilibrium, the effective real-time pseudoscalar-photon vertex is sensitive to low energy physics.
Boyanovsky Daniel
de Vega Hector J.
Holman Richard
Kumar Sreenivasa P.
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