Chiral Symmetry Restoration and the Georgi Vector Limit

Abstract

The chiral phase transition at high temperature and/or density is interpreted in terms of Georgi's vector limit. We discuss three cases as possible support for this scenario: Quark-number susceptibility, cool kaons in heavy-ion process and an instanton-molecule picture for chiral restoration. Both the notion of ``mended symmetry" and the Georgi vector limit are suggested to be relevant in nuclear physics of dense matter.

LATEX, 12 pages (no figures), SUNY NTG-94-44 (typos corrected)

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• Chiral Restoration in Hot and/or Dense Matter
• Kaon-Nucleon Scattering from Chiral Lagrangians
• Cheshire Cat Hadrons
• The Dilated Chiral Quark Model
• Proving the Low Energy Theorem of Hidden Local Symmetry
• Kaon Condensation in ``Nuclear Star" Matter

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