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Inverse magnetic catalysis in bottom-up holographic QCD

Inverse magnetic catalysis in bottom-up holographic QCD
Inverse magnetic catalysis in bottom-up holographic QCD
We explore the effect of magnetic field on chiral condensation in QCD via a simple bottom-up holographic model which inputs QCD dynamics through the running of the anomalous dimension of the quark bilinear. Bottom-up holography is a form of effective field theory and we use it to explore the dependence on the coefficients of the two lowest order terms linking the magnetic field and the quark condensate. In the massless theory, we identify a region of parameter space where magnetic catalysis occurs at zero temperature but inverse magnetic catalysis at temperatures of order the thermal phase transition. The model shows similar nonmonotonic behavior in the condensate with B at intermediate T as the lattice data. This behavior is due to the separation of the transition at which a thermal width develops for the mesons and the chiral transition in the holographic framework. The introduction of quark mass raises the scale of B where inverse catalysis takes over from catalysis until the inverse catalysis lies outside the regime of validity of the effective description leaving just catalysis.
1550-7998
Evans, Nicholas
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Miller, Carlisson
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Scott, Marc
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Evans, Nicholas
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Miller, Carlisson
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Scott, Marc
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Evans, Nicholas, Miller, Carlisson and Scott, Marc (2016) Inverse magnetic catalysis in bottom-up holographic QCD. Physical Review D, 94 (7), [074034]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.074034).

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We explore the effect of magnetic field on chiral condensation in QCD via a simple bottom-up holographic model which inputs QCD dynamics through the running of the anomalous dimension of the quark bilinear. Bottom-up holography is a form of effective field theory and we use it to explore the dependence on the coefficients of the two lowest order terms linking the magnetic field and the quark condensate. In the massless theory, we identify a region of parameter space where magnetic catalysis occurs at zero temperature but inverse magnetic catalysis at temperatures of order the thermal phase transition. The model shows similar nonmonotonic behavior in the condensate with B at intermediate T as the lattice data. This behavior is due to the separation of the transition at which a thermal width develops for the mesons and the chiral transition in the holographic framework. The introduction of quark mass raises the scale of B where inverse catalysis takes over from catalysis until the inverse catalysis lies outside the regime of validity of the effective description leaving just catalysis.

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Accepted/In Press date: 5 October 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 21 October 2016
Published date: 21 October 2016
Organisations: Theoretical Partical Physics Group

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Local EPrints ID: 401891
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/401891
ISSN: 1550-7998
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Author: Nicholas Evans
Author: Carlisson Miller
Author: Marc Scott

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