Possibility of spontaneous parity violation in hot QCD

Details Possibility of spontaneous parity violation in hot QCD Possibility of spontaneous parity violation in hot QCD

1998-04-02

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9804221v2

Phys.Rev.Lett.81:512-515,1998

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

4 pages, REVTeX

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.512

We suggest that for QCD in the limit of a large number of colors, N, the axial U(1) symmetry of massless quarks is effectively restored at the deconfining=chiral phase transition. If the deconfining transition is of second order, then the chiral transition is weakly first order. In this case, metastable states in which parity is spontaneously broken appear at temperatures below the phase transition. The production of these metastable states would have dramatic signatures, including enhanced production of eta and eta' mesons, which can decay through parity violating decay processes such as eta -> pi^0 pi^0, and global parity odd asymmetries for charged pions. Using a nonlinear sigma model, in QCD these metastable states only appear rather near the phase transition.

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