1301.6227 (Hong Mao et al.)

Chiral soliton model at finite temperature and density    [PDF]

Hong Mao, Tianzhen Wei, Jinshuang Jin

In mean field approximation, we study a chiral soliton of the linear sigma model with two flavors at finite temperature and density. The stable soliton solutions are calculated with some appropriate boundary conditions. Energy and radius of the soliton are determined in a hot medium of constituent quarks. It is found that for $TT_c$, there is a sharp delocalization phase transition from hadron matter to quark matter coincident with the restoration of chiral symmetry. In the transition region, the thermodynamic properties show large discontinuities which is an indication for a first-order phase transition.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6227