A large size of the pion-like excitations in the stringy fluid above Tch is model independent and required by current algebra
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Multiple lattice evidences support the existence of a confining but chirally symmetric stringy fluid regime of QCD above the chiral symmetry restoration temperature at T ch ≃ 155 MeV. This regime is characterized by an approximate chiral spin symmetry and its extensions which means that the propagating excitations represent the chirally symmetric quarks connected into color singlets by the chromoelectric string. Clear π, π ′ peaks above T ch were extracted on the lattice from the spatial and temporal correlators, which become broader with temperature and disappear roughly at 3 T ch . The meson-like excitations above T ch were studied within the manifestly confining and chirally symmetric model. It has been demonstrated that the chiral symmetry restoration in the confining regime happens because of Pauli blocking of the levels, required for the existence of the quark condensate, by the thermal quark excitation. The same Pauli blocking leads to a huge swelling of the low-spin mesons above T ch which become infinitely large in the chiral limit. This property should be crucial for the explanation of the high collectivity and a very small mean-free path of the constituents above T ch seen experimentally. Here we demonstrate that the swelling of pions above T ch is a model-independent effect required by current algebra.
Source: Physics Letters B
Author: L. Ya. Glozman
Institution: University of Graz
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Austrian Science Fund
OpenAlex ID: W7196966168