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20242026
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5 papers

hep-ph2026

Chiral anomaly: from vacuum to Columbia plot

Francesco Giacosa, Győző Kovács, Péter Kovács +2

We use a low-energy effective approach, the extended linear sigma model, to study realizations of the anomaly with different operators, linear and quadratic in the 't Hoof…

math-ph2025

Emergence of the polydeterminant in QCD

Francesco Giacosa, Michał Zakrzewski, Shahriyar Jafarzade +1

A generalization of the determinant appears in particle physics in effective Lagrangian interaction terms that model the chiral anomaly in Quantum Chromodynamics (PRD 97 (2018) 9,…

hep-ph2025

Ordinary and exotic mesons in the extended Linear Sigma Model

Francesco Giacosa, Péter Kovács, Shahriyar Jafarzade

The extended Linear Sigma Model (eLSM) is a hadronic model based on the global symmetries of QCD and the corresponding explicit, anomalous, and spontaneous breaking patterns. In it…

hep-ph2025

Anomalous couplings and the Columbia plot

Francesco Giacosa, Győző Kovács, Péter Kovács +2

When the quark masses are lighter than those in QCD, the standard lore is that a chiral transition of first order must emerge for three, light flavors. Recently, however, numerical…

hep-th2024

Scalar field with a time-independent classical source, not trivial after all: from vacuum decay to scattering

Leonardo Tinti, Arthur Vereijken, Shahriyar Jafarzade +1

Historically it has been believed that a time-independent classical source has no effect on the scattering of relativistic uncharged field, in contrast with single particle quantum…