QCD mesonic screening masses and restoration of chiral symmetry at high T
D. Laudicina*, M. Dalla Brida, L. Giusti, T. Harris and M. Pepe
Pre-published on:
March 22, 2023
Published on:
April 06, 2023
Abstract
We present a strategy to study QCD non-perturbatively on the lattice at very high temperatures. This strategy exploits a non-perturbative, finite-volume, definition of the strong coupling constant to renormalize the theory. As a first application we compute the flavor non-singlet mesonic screening masses in a wide range of temperature, from $T\sim 1 $ GeV up to $\sim 160 $ GeV with three flavors in the chiral limit of QCD. Our results show very interesting features of the screening spectrum at very high temperatures. On one hand the mass splitting between the vector and the pseudoscalar screening masses is clearly visible up to the electroweak scale and cannot be explained by the known 1-loop perturbative result. On the other hand the restoration of chiral symmetry manifests itself through the degeneracy of the pseudoscalar and the scalar channels and of the vector and the axial-vector ones. This degeneracy pattern is the one expected by Ward identities associated to the presence of chiral symmetry.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.430.0182
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