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Spectrum of soft mode with thermal mass of quarks above critical temperature

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arxiv hep-ph/0703037 v1 pith:OLTSOXCH submitted 2007-03-04 hep-ph

Spectrum of soft mode with thermal mass of quarks above critical temperature

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keywords massthermalchiralquarksfinitephasequarksoft
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We study effects of a thermal-quark mass and Landau damping of quarks on the chiral phase transition and its soft modes at finite temperature. For this purpose we employ a simple model with the quark propagator obtained in the hard thermal loop approximation. We show that the chiral phase transition is second order even if quark have a finite thermal mass, and the thermal mass suppresses the chiral condensate. We argue that mesonic spectra have a large width due to scattering between gluons and quarks, and the van Hove singularity at threshold.

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