Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2002-09-23
Phys.Rev. C67 (2003) 025203
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
12 pages, 8 figures, 1 figure replaced, minor modifications
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.67.025203
Spectral functions in the $\sigma$-channel are investigated near the chiral critical end point (CEP), that is, the point where the chiral phase transition ceases to be first-ordered in the $(\mu,T)$-plane of the QCD phase diagram. At that point the $\sigma$ meson becomes massless in spite of explicit breaking of the chiral symmetry. It is expected that experimental signatures peculiar to CEP can be observed through spectral changes in the presence of abnormally light $\sigma$ mesons. As a candidate, the invariant-mass spectrum for diphoton emission is estimated with the chiral quark model incorporated. The results show the characteristic shape with a peak in the low energy region, which may serve as a signal for CEP. However, we find that the diphoton multiplicity is highly suppressed by infrared behaviors of the $\sigma$ meson. Experimentally, in such a low energy region below the threshold of two pions, photons from $\pi^0\to2\gamma$ are major sources of the background for the signal.
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