Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2003-11-10
Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 074001
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
9 pages, 3 figures; v2: renormalization of vacuum fluctuations in the linear sigma model and some references added; final vers
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.074001
We analyze the dependence of the QCD transition temperature on the quark (or pion) mass. We find that a linear sigma model, which links the transition to chiral symmetry restoration, predicts a much stronger dependence of T_c on m_pi than seen in present lattice data for m_pi >~ 0.4 GeV. On the other hand, working down from m_pi=infinity, an effective Lagrangian for the Polyakov loop requires only small explicit symmetry breaking, b_1 ~ exp(-m_pi), to describe T_c(m_pi) in the above mass range. Physically, this is a consequence of the flat potential (large correlation length) for the Polyakov loop in the three-color pure gauge theory at T_c. We quantitatively estimate the end point of the line of first order deconfining phase transitions: m_pi = 1.8 GeV and Tc = 240 MeV for three flavors and three colors.
Dumitru Adrian
Röder Dirk
Ruppert Jorg
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