$\eta$ and ${\eta }^{\prime }$ mesons in the Dyson-Schwinger approach at finite temperature

Abstract

We study the temperature dependence of the pseudoscalar meson properties in a relativistic bound-state approach exhibiting the chiral behavior mandated by QCD. Concretely, we adopt the Dyson-Schwinger approach with a rank-2 separable model interaction. After extending the model to the strange sector and fixing its parameters at zero temperature, T=0, we study the T-dependence of the masses and decay constants of all ground-state mesons in the pseudoscalar nonet. Of chief interest are $\eta$ and ${\eta }^{\prime }$. The influence of the QCD axial anomaly on them is successfully obtained through the Witten-Veneziano relation at T=0. The same approach is then extended to T>0, using lattice QCD results for the topological susceptibility. The most conspicuous finding is an increase of the ${\eta }^{\prime }$ mass around the chiral restoration temperature $T_{\mathrm{Ch}}$, which would suggest a suppression of ${\eta }^{\prime }$ production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The increase of the ${\eta }^{\prime }$ mass may also indicate that the extension of the Witten-Veneziano relation to finite temperatures becomes unreliable around and above $T_{\mathrm{Ch}}$. Possibilities of an improved treatment are discussed.

13 pages, 15 figures

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