Pith. sign in

REVIEW 2 cited by

The chiral phase transition and the axial anomaly

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 2401.06130 v2 pith:NN2WE4AD submitted 2024-01-11 hep-ph hep-lathep-thnucl-th

classification hep-phhep-lathep-thnucl-th
keywords chiralphasesymmetrybreakinglatticesimulationstransitionanomalous
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal
0 comments
abstract

To date numerical simulations of lattice QCD have not found a chiral phase transition of first order which is expected to occur for sufficiently light pions. We show how the restoration of an exact global chiral symmetry can strongly decrease the breaking of the approximate, anomalous $U_A(1)$ symmetry. This is testable on the lattice through simulations for one through four flavors. In QCD a small breaking of the $U_A(1)$ symmetry in the chirally symmetric phase generates novel experimental signals.

Discussion (0). Sign in to comment.

Forward citations

Cited by 2 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score. Full citation record

  1. On the nature of the QCD chiral phase transition with imaginary chemical potential

    hep-lat 2025-12 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

    First-order chiral regions observed on coarse staggered lattices disappear in tricritical points as the lattice spacing decreases at imaginary chemical potential, implying a second-order continuum transition.

  2. Quark mass dependence of a QCD critical point and structure of the Columbia plot

    hep-ph 2025-07 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

    In a truncated Dyson-Schwinger setup, the QCD critical point moves to higher temperature and lower baryon chemical potential as light quark masses decrease toward the chiral limit.

Pith tools