量子色動力學手則相變之重整化群研究

A Study of QCD Chiral Phase Transition with the Renormalization Group

周士凱(Shih-Kai Chou)

指導教授 ： 趙挺偉

國立臺灣大學/理學院/物理研究所/碩士(2014年)

https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU.2014.03090

摘要

量子色動力學 (quantum chromodynamics, QCD) 是一描述夸克和膠子交互作用的基本理論。在零溫度下，N_f 個無質量夸克的手則對稱因 QCD 真空而破缺，且軸 U(1) 對稱因軸畸異 (axial anomaly) 而破缺。手則對稱與軸 U(1) 對稱兩者在高溫時均期望會被還原。在此論文中，我們以 QCD 的等效場論，也就是 N_f = 2 之 SU(N_f) × SU(N_f) 線性 σ 模型，計算其包含所有耦合項的 β 函數至一階迴圈來研究手則對稱與軸 U(1) 對稱的還原。

關鍵字

手則對稱 ； 量子色動力學手則相變 ； 重整化群

並列摘要

Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the fundamental theory for the interaction between quarks and gluons. At zero temperature, the chiral symmetry of N_f massless quarks is broken by the vacuum of QCD, and the axial U(1) symmetry is broken by the axial anomaly. It is expected that the chiral symmetry and the axial U(1) symmetry both are restored at high temperature. In this thesis, we study the restorations of the chiral symmetry and the axial U(1) symmetry in the effective field theory of QCD, namely, the SU(N_f)_L x SU(N_f)_R linear σ model for N_f = 2, by computing the β functions of all couplings to the one-loop order.

並列關鍵字

chiral symmetry ； QCD chiral phase transition ； renormalization group

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