Remarks on the chiral phase transition in chromodynamics
- 15 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 29 (2) , 338-341
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.29.338
Abstract
The phase transition restoring chiral symmetry at finite temperatures is considered in a linear model. For three or more massless flavors, the perturbative expansion predicts the phase transition is of first order. At high temperatures, the symmetry will also be effectively restored.
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