Thermodynamics of dense hadronic matter in a parity doublet model

Journal Article · Wed Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVC.82.035204· OSTI ID:21419556

Sasaki, Chihiro ^[1]; Mishustin, Igor ^[1]

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1. Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

We study thermodynamics of nuclear matter in a two-flavored parity doublet model within the mean-field approximation. Parameters of the model are chosen to reproduce correctly the properties of the nuclear ground state. The model predicts two phase transitions in nuclear matter, a liquid-gas phase transition at normal nuclear density and a chiral transition at higher density. At finite temperature the pion decay constant exhibits a considerable reduction at intermediate values of chemical potential, which is traced back to the presence of the liquid-gas transition, and approaches zero at higher chemical potential associated with the chiral symmetry restoration. A 'transition' from meson-rich to baryon-rich matter is also discussed.

• OSTI ID: 21419556
• Journal Information: Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Vol. 82, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.82.035204; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2813
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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PARTICLE DECAY
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