Soft modes in hot QCD matter

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Autores principales: Braun, Jens, Chen, Yong-rui, Fu, Wei-jie, Gao, Fei, Huang, Chuang, Ihssen, Friederike, Pawlowski, Jan M., Rennecke, Fabian, Sattler, Franz R., Tan, Yang-yang, Wen, Rui, Yin, Shi
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author Braun, Jens
Chen, Yong-rui
Fu, Wei-jie
Gao, Fei
Huang, Chuang
Ihssen, Friederike
Pawlowski, Jan M.
Rennecke, Fabian
Sattler, Franz R.
Tan, Yang-yang
Wen, Rui
Yin, Shi
author_facet Braun, Jens
Chen, Yong-rui
Fu, Wei-jie
Gao, Fei
Huang, Chuang
Ihssen, Friederike
Pawlowski, Jan M.
Rennecke, Fabian
Sattler, Franz R.
Tan, Yang-yang
Wen, Rui
Yin, Shi
contents The chiral crossover of QCD at finite temperature and vanishing baryon density turns into a second order phase transition if lighter than physical quark masses are considered. If this transition occurs sufficiently close to the physical point, its universal critical behaviour would largely control the physics of the QCD phase transition. We quantify the size of this region in QCD using functional approaches, both Dyson-Schwinger equations and the functional renormalisation group. The latter allows us to study both critical and non-critical effects on equal footing, facilitating a precise determination of the scaling regime. We find that the physical point is far away from the critical region. Importantly, we show that the physics of the chiral crossover is dominated by soft modes even far beyond the critical region. While scaling functions determine all thermodynamic properties of the system in the critical region, the order parameter potential is the relevant quantity away from it. We compute this potential in QCD using the functional renormalisation group and Dyson-Schwinger equations and provide a simple parametrisation for phenomenological applications.
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spellingShingle Soft modes in hot QCD matter
Braun, Jens
Chen, Yong-rui
Fu, Wei-jie
Gao, Fei
Huang, Chuang
Ihssen, Friederike
Pawlowski, Jan M.
Rennecke, Fabian
Sattler, Franz R.
Tan, Yang-yang
Wen, Rui
Yin, Shi
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
The chiral crossover of QCD at finite temperature and vanishing baryon density turns into a second order phase transition if lighter than physical quark masses are considered. If this transition occurs sufficiently close to the physical point, its universal critical behaviour would largely control the physics of the QCD phase transition. We quantify the size of this region in QCD using functional approaches, both Dyson-Schwinger equations and the functional renormalisation group. The latter allows us to study both critical and non-critical effects on equal footing, facilitating a precise determination of the scaling regime. We find that the physical point is far away from the critical region. Importantly, we show that the physics of the chiral crossover is dominated by soft modes even far beyond the critical region. While scaling functions determine all thermodynamic properties of the system in the critical region, the order parameter potential is the relevant quantity away from it. We compute this potential in QCD using the functional renormalisation group and Dyson-Schwinger equations and provide a simple parametrisation for phenomenological applications.
title Soft modes in hot QCD matter
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19853