Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8184793 Nuclear Physics A 2011 4 Pages PDF
Abstract
We demonstrate a connection between UA(1)-breaking and topology. We do this by showing that UA(1) is broken in a finite volume by configurations with a nonzero topological charge Qtop. As the temperature is increased, the number of such configurations (and hence the breaking) decreases, though it is still nonzero at the highest temperature (T=1.25Tc) that we study. The question as to whether these contributions survive in the thermodynamic as well as chiral limits is still an open one.
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