Non-Abelian anomalous constitutive relations of a chiral hadronic fluid

We study the constitutive relations of a chiral hadronic fluid in presence of non-Abelian’t Hooft anomalies. Analytical expressions for the covariant currents are obtained at first order in derivatives in the chiral symmetric phase, for both two and three quark flavors in the presence of chiral imbalance. We also investigate the constitutive relations after chiral symmetry breaking at the leading order.

Bulk viscosity in strong and electroweak matter

For temperatures [Formula: see text] ranging from a few MeV up to TeV and energy density [Formula: see text] up to [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]GeV/fm3, the bulk viscosity [Formula: see text] is calculated in nonperturbation (up, down, strange, charm and bottom) and perturbation theories with up, down, strange, charm, bottom and top quark flavors, at vanishing baryon-chemical potential. To these calculations, results deduced from the effective QCD-like model, the Polyakov linear-sigma model (PLSM), are also integrated in. The PLSM merely comes up with essential contributions for the vacuum and thermal condensations of the gluons and the quarks (up, down, strange and charm flavors). Furthermore, the thermal contributions of the photons, neutrinos, charged leptons, electroweak particles and scalar Higgs boson are found very significant along the entire range of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] and therefore could be well integrated in. We present the dimensionless quantity [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is a perturbative scale and [Formula: see text] is the entropy density and conclude that [Formula: see text] exponentially decreases with increasing [Formula: see text]. We also conclude that the resulting [Formula: see text] with the nonperturbative and perturbative QCD contributions nonmonotonically increases with increasing [Formula: see text]. But with nearly-entire standard model contributions considered in this study, [Formula: see text] almost-linearly increases with increasing of [Formula: see text]. Apparently, these results offer a great deal to explore in astrophysics, cosmology and nuclear collisions.

Updates on the QCD phase diagram from lattice

Different aspects of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter described by quantum chromodynamics (QCD), which have emerged from the recent studies using lattice gauge theory techniques, are discussed. A special emphasis is given on understanding the role of the anomalous axial U(1) symmetry in determining the order of the finite temperature chiral phase transition in QCD with two massless quark flavors and tracing its origin to the topological properties of the QCD vacuum.

The Spin-Spin Interaction Mechanism between Quarks and Its Impact on the Mass Spectrum of Mesons

A structure-based view on mesons is given, based upon the concept of an archetype quark, described as a pointlike source producing an energy flux, the spatial description of which is derived from Dirac’s second dipole moment. This enables to conceive the archetype meson (pion) as a structure that behaves as a one-body anharmonic quantum mechanical oscillator. All mesons appear being excitations of the archetype, thereby allowing a calculation of the mass spectrum without the use of empirical parameters for the masses of the quark flavors. This includes a physically comprehensible analysis of the spin-spin interaction between quarks. It also provides a solution for the eta-etaprime puzzle. Next to this, it is shown that quite some particles that are presently regarded as elementary, have a common root and can be traced back to a few archetypes only.

Strangeness neutrality and QCD thermodynamics

Since the incident nuclei in heavy-ion collisions do not carry strangeness, the global net strangeness of the detected hadrons has to vanish. We investigate the impact of strangeness neutrality on the phase structure and thermodynamics of QCD at finite baryon and strangeness chemical potential. To this end, we study the low-energy sector of QCD within a Polyakov loop enhanced quark-meson effective theory with 2+1 dynamical quark flavors. Non-perturbative quantum, thermal, and density fluctuations are taken into account with the functional renormalization group. We show that the impact of strangeness neutrality on thermodynamic quantities such as the equation of state is sizable.

The Spin-Spin Interaction Mechanism between Quarks and Its Impact on the Mass Spectrum of Mesons

A structure-based view on mesons is given, based upon the concept of an archetype quark, described as a pointlike source producing an energy flux, the spatial description of which is derived from Dirac’s second dipole moment. This enables to conceive the archetype meson (pion) as a structure that behaves as a one-body anharmonic quantum mechanical oscillator. All mesons appear being excitations of the archetype, thereby allowing a calculation of the mass spectrum without the use of empirical parameters for the masses of the quark flavors. This includes a physically comprehensible analysis of the spin-spin interaction between quarks. It also provides a solution for the eta-etaprime puzzle. Next to this, it is shown that quite some particles that are presently regarded as elementary, have a common root and can be traced back to a few archetypes only.

The Spin-Spin Interaction Mechanism between Quarks and Its Impact on the Mass Spectrum of Mesons

A structure-based view on mesons is given, based upon the concept of an archetype quark, described as a pointlike source producing an energy flux, the spatial description of which is derived from the functional description of the Higgs field. This enables to conceive the archetype meson (pion) as a structure that behaves as a one-body anharmonic quantum mechanical oscillator. All mesons appear being excitations of the archetype, thereby allowing a calculation of the mass spectrum without the use of empirical parameters for the masses of the quark flavors. This includes a physically comprehensible analysis of the spin-spin interaction between quarks. It also provides a solution for the eta-etaprime puzzle. Next to this, it is shown that quite some particles that are presently regarded as elementary, have a common root and can be traced back to a few archetypes only.