2–4 Jul 2025
Faculty of Law and Administration, UWr
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Chiral anomaly: from vacuum to Columbia plot

2 Jul 2025, 10:10
20m
Witold Swida Lecture Hall (Faculty of Law and Administration, UWr)

Witold Swida Lecture Hall

Faculty of Law and Administration, UWr

ul. Uniwersytecka 7-10 Wrocław, Poland
Talk Phase diagram and critical behaviour in QCD/QFT

Speaker

Prof. Francesco Giacosa (Kielce University)

Description

First, the importance of the chiral anomaly in the QCD vacuum is briefly reviewed. Besides pseudoscalar mesons, it may affect other resonances. To this end, a mathematical object called `polydeterminant' is introduced. Next, the role of the chiral anomaly at nonzero temperature is investigated. In particular, the Columbia plot (the order of the phase transition in dependence of the quark masses) is strongly affected by the precise realization of the chiral anomaly.

Authors

Fabian Rennecke (Justus Liebig University Giessen) Prof. Francesco Giacosa (Kielce University) Gyozo Kovacs (University of Wrocław, Wigner RCP) Dr Péter Kovács (Wigner Research Centre for Physics) rob pisarski

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