Interacting mesons as degrees of freedom in a chiral model
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at non-zero temperature and density is a vastly complex and rich system, and mapping out its phase structure has consequences for physics at scales from the collisions of heavy ions to the interior of neutron stars. The authors extend a mean-field approximation to thermal QCD by including explicit interactions that break chiral symmetry, demonstrating improved agreement with comparable calculations on the lattice.
Authors
- Arvind Kumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1873-6094)
- Claudia Ratti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8335-567X)
- Konstantin A. Maslov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4334-1548)
- Joaquin Grefa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7590-9364)
- Ralf Rapp (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3020-4402)
- Verônica Dexheimer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5578-2626)
- Rajesh Kumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2746-3956)
- Yuhan Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0847-852X)
Institutions
- Kent State University (US)
- Mitchell Institute (US)
- University of Houston (US)
- Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar (IN)
- Texas A&M University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
- Published
- 2025-04-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.111.074029
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.74
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Office of Science
- Nuclear Physics