Novel Collective Excitations and the Quasi-Particle Picture of Quarks Coupled with a Massive Boson at Finite Temperature
| dc.creator | Kitazawa, Masakiyo | |
| dc.creator | Kunihiro, Teiji | |
| dc.creator | Nemoto, Yukio | |
| dc.date | 2006-09-18 | |
| dc.date | 2007-01-11 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:25:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:25:27Z | |
| dc.description | Motivated by the observation that there may exist hadronic excitations even in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) phase, we investigate how the properties of quarks, especially within the quasi-particle picture, are affected by the coupling with bosonic excitations at finite temperature (T), employing Yukawa models with a massive scalar (pseudoscalar) and vector (axial-vector) boson of mass m. The quark spectral function and the quasi-dispersion relations are calculated at one-loop order. We find that there appears a three-peak structure in the quark spectral function with a collective nature when T is comparable with m, irrespective of the type of boson considered. Such a multi-peak structure was first found in a chiral model yielding scalar composite bosons with a decay width. We elucidate the mechanism through which the new quark collective excitations are realized in terms of the Landau damping of a quark (an antiquark) induced by scattering with the thermally excited boson, which gives rise to mixing and hence a level repulsion between a quark (antiquark) and an antiquark-hole (quark-hole) in the thermally excited antiquark (quark) distribution. Our results suggest that the quarks in the QGP phase can be described within an interesting quasi-particle picture with a multi-peak spectral function. Because the models employed here are rather generic, our findings may represent a universal phenomenon for fermions coupled to a massive bosonic excitation with a vanishing or small width. The relevance of these results to other fields of physics, such as neutrino physics, is also briefly discussed. In addition, we describe a new aspect of the plasmino excitation obtained in the hard-thermal loop approximation. | |
| dc.description | 41 pages, 39 eps figures, version to appear in Prog. Theor. Phys, comments on effects of the quark mass and the chemical potential added, typos corrected, some figures improved | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0609164 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0609164 | |
| dc.identifier | Prog.Theor.Phys.117:103-138,2007 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1143/PTP.117.103 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/176545 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.subject | Nuclear Theory | |
| dc.title | Novel Collective Excitations and the Quasi-Particle Picture of Quarks Coupled with a Massive Boson at Finite Temperature | |
| dc.type | text |