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FIELDS, PARTICLES, AND NUCLEI

Possible pseudogap phase in QCD

K. L. Zarembo<sup>ab

a</sup> Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Russian Federation State Scientific Center), Moscow
^b Department of Physics and Astronomy and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences University of British Columbia

Abstract: Thermal pion fluctuations, in principle, can completely disorder the phase of the quark condensate and thus restore chiral symmetry. If this happens before the quark condensate melts, strongly-interacting matter will be in the pseudogap state just above the chiral phase transition. The quark condensate does not vanish locally and quarks acquire constituent masses in the pseudogap phase, despite chiral symmetry is restored.

PACS: 12.38.Mh, 12.39.Fe

Received: 14.12.2001

Language: English

 English version: Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2002, 75:2, 59–62

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