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The effect of kaon condensation on quark-antiquark condensate in dense matter
Abstract Assuming that at sufficiently high densities the constituent quarks become relevant degrees of freedom, we study within the framework of a chiral quark model the influence of s -wave K − condensation on the quark–antiquark condensates. We find that, in linear density approximation, the presence of a K − condensate quenches the u ¯ u condensate, but that the d ¯ d condensate remains unaffected up to the chiral order under consideration. We discuss the implication of the suppressed u ¯ u condensate for flavor-dependent chiral symmetry restoration in dense matter.
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Consequences of the partial restoration of chiral symmetry in AdS/QCD
Chiral symmetry is an essential concept in understanding QCD at low energy. We treat the chiral condensate, which measures the spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry, as a free parameter to investigate the effect of partially restored chiral symmetry on the physical quantities in the frame work of an AdS/QCD model. We observe an interesting scaling behavior among the nucleon mass, pion decay constant and chiral condensate. We propose a phenomenological way to introduce the temperature dependence of a physical quantity in the AdS/QCD model with the thermal AdS metric.
18963275
Heavy quarkonium in a holographic QCD model
Encouraged by recent developments in AdS/QCD models for the light quark system, we study heavy quarkonium in the framework of the AdS/QCD models. We calculate the masses of cc vector meson states using the AdS/QCD models at zero and at finite temperature. Among the models adopted in this work, we find that the soft-wall model describes the low-lying heavy quark meson states at zero temperature relatively well. At finite temperature, we observe that once the bound state is above T{sub c}, its mass will increase with temperature until it dissociates at a temperature of around 494 MeV. It is shown that the dissociation temperature is fixed by the infrared cutoff of the models. The present model serves as a unified nonperturbative model to investigate the properties of bound quarkonium states above T{sub c}.
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Vector manifestation and fate of vector mesons in dense matter
We describe in-medium properties of hadrons in dense matter near chiral restoration using a Wilsonian matching to QCD of an effective field theory with hidden local symmetry at the chiral cutoff $\Lambda$. We find that chiral symmetry is restored in vector manifestation \`a la Harada and Yamawaki at a critical matter density $n_c$. We express the critical density in terms of QCD correlators in dense matter at the matching scale. In a manner completely analogous to what happens at the critical $N_f^c$ and at the critical temperature $T^c$, the vector meson mass is found to vanish (in the chiral limit) at chiral restoration. This result provides a support for Brown-Rho scaling predicted a decade ago.
7806265
Meson exchange effect on color superconductivity
We investigate the effects of pion and gluon exchanges on the formation of two-flavor color superconductivity at moderate density, � < 1GeV . The chiral quark model proposed by Manohar and Georgi containing pions as well as gluons is employed to show that the pion exchange reduces substantially the value of the superconducting gap gotten with the gluon exchange only. It turns out that the pion exchanges produce a repulsion between quark-quark pair in a spin and isospin singlet state. We suggest that the phase consisiting of pions, gluons and quarks is one of the candidates of in-medium QCD phase at moderate density.
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A Schematic model for rho - a(1) mixing at finite density and in-medium effective Lagrangian
Based on schematic two-level models extended to a{sub 1}-meson degrees of freedom, we investigate possible mechanisms of chiral restoration in the vector-axial-vector channels in cold nuclear matter. In the first part of this article we employ the massive Yang-Mills framework to construct an effective chiral Lagrangian based on low-energy mesonic modes at finite density. The latter are identified through nuclear collective excitations of ''meson''-sobar type such as {pi}{r_reversible}[{delta}(1232)N{sup -1}]{identical_to}{pi}, {rho}{r_reversible}[N{sup *}(1520)N{sup -1}]{identical_to}{rho}, etc. In a mean-field type treatment the in-medium gauge coupling g, the (axial-)vector meson masses and f{sub {pi}} are found to decrease with density indicating the approach towards chiral restoration in the language of in-medium effective fields. In the second part of our analysis we evaluate the (first) in-medium Weinberg sum rule which relates vector and axial-vector correlators to the pion decay constant. Using in-medium {rho}/a{sub 1} spectral functions (computed in the two-level model) also leads to a substantial reduction of the pion decay constant with increasing density. (c) 2000 The American Physical Society.
123462298
Overlap of shape resonance and Cooper-minimum structure in photoionization
Examples of a Cooper minimum inside the range of a shape-resonance maximum of a photoionization cross section have been found in numerical calculations within a single-electron model in a relativistic Hartree-Fock-Slater potential. In these model calculations for the photoionization of tin and uranium we find relatively broad shape resonances in all the $d$ and $f$ subshells. In addition a Cooper minimum occurs in the outer subshells of these high-angular-momentum states within the region of the shape-resonance maximum. We examine the matrix elements for these subshells and the resulting cross sections and angular distributions.
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Operation of single GEM, GEM + MWPC, and GEM + MSGC detectors
118123985
Squeezed states, time-energy uncertainty relation, and Feynman's rest of the universe
Two illustrative examples are given for Feynman's rest of the universe. The first example is the two-mode squeezed state of light where no measurement is taken for one of the modes. The second example is the relativistic quark model where no measurement is possible for the time-like separation fo quarks confined in a hadron. It is possible to illustrate these examples using the covariant oscillator formalism. It is shown that the lack of symmetry between the position-momentum and time-energy uncertainty relations leads to an increase in entropy when the system is different Lorentz frames.
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Feynman’s decoherence
Gell-Mann’s quarks are coherent particles confined within a hadron at rest, but Feynman’s partons are incoherent particles which constitute a hadron moving with a velocity close to that of light. It is widely believed that the quark model and the parton model are two different manifestations of the same covariant entity. If this is the case, the question arises whether the Lorentz boost destroys coherence. It is pointed out that this is not the case, and it is possible to resolve this puzzle without inventing new physics. It is shown that this decoherence is due to the measurement processes which are less than complete.
119689322
Internal Space-time Symmetries according to Einstein, Wigner, Dirac, and Feynman
When Einstein formulated his special relativity in 1905, he established the law of Lorentz transformations for point particles. It is now known that particles have internal space-time structures. Particles, such as photons and electrons, have spin variables. Protons and other hadrons are regarded as bound states of more fundamental particles called quarks which have their internal variables. It is still one of the most outstanding problems whether these internal spacetime variables are transformed according to Einstein’s law of Lorentz transformations. It is noted that Wigner, Dirac, and Feynman made important contributions to this problem. By integrating their efforts, it is then shown possible to construct a picture of the internal spacetime symmetry consistent with Einstein’s Lorentz covariance. email: yskim@physics.umd.edu email: marilyne.noz@gmail.com 1