paper

Vector-axialvector mixing in hot matter and its hadronic effective field theory description

arXiv:0805.4792 · doi:10.1143/PTPS.174.173 10.1007/s12648-011-0123-6

Abstract

We discuss the importance of the axialvector meson in chiral phase transition at finite temperature. We show that there exists a significant contribution in the vector spectral function from the axialvector meson through the vector-axialvector mixing in hot matter.

4 pages, 3 figures, based on presentations given in Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur, India, Feb 4-10, 2008 and the YITP International Symposium "Fundamental Problems in Hot and/or Dense QCD", Kyoto, Japan, March 3-6, 2008