{
  "id": "hep-ph/0101040",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2001-01-04T18:01:49.000Z",
  "updated": "2001-04-17T14:33:59.000Z",
  "title": "The chicken or the egg; or Who ordered the chiral phase transition?",
  "authors": [
    "Ian I. Kogan",
    "Alex Kovner",
    "Bayram Tekin"
  ],
  "comment": "22 pages, 7 figures, comments about chiral symmetry at finite nuclear density are added",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev. D63 (2001) 116007",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.63.116007",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "hep-lat",
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "We draw an analogy between the deconfining transition in the 2+1 dimensional Georgi-Glashow model and the chiral phase transition in 3+1 dimensional QCD. Based on the detailed analysis of the former (hep-th/0010201) we suggest that the chiral symmetry restoration in QCD at high temperature is driven by the thermal ensemble of baryons and anti-baryons. The chiral symmetry is restored when roughly half of the volume is occupied by the baryons. Surprisingly enough, even though baryons are rather heavy, a crude estimate for the critical temperature gives $T_c=180$ Mev. In this scenario the binding of the instantons is not the cause but rather a consequence of the chiral symmetry restoration.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2001-04-17T14:33:59.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "chiral phase transition",
      "chiral symmetry restoration",
      "dimensional georgi-glashow model",
      "dimensional qcd",
      "high temperature"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. D"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 22,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 551874
    }
  }
}