Chiral symmetry breaking and chemical equilibrium in a heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

We examine the thermalization of an ensemble of the octet of pseudoscalar mesons, in the isospin symmetric limit, whose interactions are constrained through chiral symmetry, unitarity, and measurements. The reaction amplitudes generate all resonances up to masses of about 2 GeV, with twelve input parameters, namely f_pi, three masses, and eight low energy constants (LECs) of chiral perturbation theory. In linear response theory, we find that matter takes an extremely long time to thermalize. These long relaxation times are directly related to the fact that these mesons are pseudo-Goldstone bosons of chiral symmetry breaking. This result indicates that fireballs created with zero baryon number in heavy-ion collisions will drop out of chemical equilibrium once they enter the chiral symmetry broken phase.

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