Can hadrons survive the chiral phase transition ?

T. Schaefer, E. V. Shuryak

Published 1995-06-09Version 1

We study mesonic and baryonic correlation functions in the temporal directions in the vicinity of the critical temperature $T\simeq T_c$ using the instanton liquid model. In this model chiral symmetry restoration is driven by the formation of instanton-antiinstanton molecules. Although we find the signals for all hadronic poles to be drastically reduced, some hadronic states seem to survive the phase transition, as loosely bound $U(N_f)\times U(N_f)$ chiral multiplets in the plasma phase. These states are the $0^+ - 0^-$ mesons $(\pi,\sigma,\eta',\delta)$ and the $N(\frac{1}{2}^+) - N(\frac{1}{2}^-)$ baryons.