Thermal Properties of Light Tensor Mesons via QCD Sum Rules

Azizi, K.; Türkan, A.; Veli Veliev, E.; Sundu, H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/794243

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Volume 2015 | Article ID 794243 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/794243

Thermal Properties of Light Tensor Mesons via QCD Sum Rules

K. Azizi,¹A. Türkan,²E. Veli Veliev,²and H. Sundu²

Academic Editor: Kadayam S. Viswanathan

Received27 Aug 2014

Revised20 Feb 2015

Accepted25 Feb 2015

Published10 Mar 2015

Abstract

The thermal properties of (1270), (1320), and (1430) light tensor mesons are investigated in the framework of QCD sum rules at finite temperature. In particular, the masses and decay constants of the light tensor mesons are calculated taking into account the new operators appearing at finite temperature. The numerical results show that, at the point at which the temperature-dependent continuum threshold vanishes, the decay constants decrease with amount of (70–85)% compared to their vacuum values, while the masses diminish about (60–72)% depending on the kinds of the mesons under consideration. The results obtained at zero temperature are in good consistency with the experimental data as well as the existing theoretical predictions.

1. Introduction

The study of strong interaction at low energies is one of the most important problems of the high energy physics. This can play a crucial role in exploring the structure of mesons, baryons, and vacuum properties of strong interaction. The tensor particles can provide a different perspective for understanding the low energy QCD dynamics. In recent decades, great efforts have been made both experimentally and theoretically to investigate the tensor particles in order to understand their nature and internal structure.

The investigation of hadronic properties at finite baryon density and temperature in QCD also plays an essential role in interpretation of the results of heavy-ion collision experiments and obtaining the QCD phase diagram. The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment of the FAIR project at GSI is important for understanding the way of Chiral symmetry realization in the low energy region and, consequently, the confinement of QCD. According to thermal QCD, the hadronic matter undergoes quark gluon-plasma phase at a critical temperature. These kinds of phase may exist in the neutron stars and early universe. Hence, calculation of the parameters of hadrons via thermal QCD may provide us with useful information on these subjects.

The restoration of Chiral symmetry at high temperature requires the medium modifications of hadronic parameters [1]. There are many nonperturbative approaches to hadron physics. The QCD sum rule method [2, 3] is one of the most attractive and applicable tools in this respect. In this approach, hadrons are represented by their interpolating quark currents and the correlation function of these currents is calculated using the operator product expansion (OPE). The thermal version of this approach is based on some basic assumptions so that the Wilson expansion and the quark-hadron duality approximation remain valid, but the vacuum condensates are replaced by their thermal expectation values [4]. At finite temperature, the Lorentz invariance is broken and, due to the residual symmetry, some new operators appear in the Wilson expansion [5–7]. These operators are expressed in terms of the four-vector velocity of the medium and the energy momentum tensor. There are numerous works in the literature on the medium modifications of parameters of (pseudo)scalar and (axial)vector mesons using different theoretical approaches, for example, Chiral model [8], coupled channel approach [9, 10], and QCD sum rules [5, 6, 11–17]. Recently, we applied this method to calculate some hadronic parameters related to the charmed and charmed-strange tensor [18] mesons.

In the present work we investigate the properties of light , , and tensor mesons in the framework of QCD sum rules at finite temperature. We also compare the results obtained at zero temperature with the predictions of some previous studies on the parameters of the same mesons in vacuum [19–21].

The present paper is organized as follows. In the next section, considering the new operators raised at finite temperature, we evaluate the corresponding thermal correlation function to obtain the QCD sum rules for the parameters of the mesons under consideration. The last section is devoted to the numerical analysis of the sum rules obtained as well as investigation of the sensitivity of the masses and decay constants of the light tensor mesons on temperature.

2. Thermal QCD Sum Rules for Masses and Decay Constants of Light Tensor Mesons

In this section we present the basics of the thermal QCD sum rules and apply this method to some light tensor mesons like , , and to compute their mass and decay constant. The starting point is to consider the following thermal correlation function: where is the thermal density matrix of QCD, with being temperature, is the QCD Hamiltonian, indicates the time ordered product, and is the interpolating current of tensor mesons. The interpolating fields for these mesons can be written as where denotes the derivative with respect to four- simultaneously acting on left and right. It is given as wherewith and being the Gell-Mann matrices and external gluon fields, respectively. The currents contain derivatives with respect to the space-time; hence, we consider the two currents at points and in (1), but, for simplicity, we will set after applying derivative with respect to .

It is well known that, in thermal QCD sum rule approach, the thermal correlation function can be calculated in two different ways. Firstly, it is calculated in terms of hadronic parameters such as masses and decay constants. Secondly, it is calculated in terms of the QCD parameters such as quark masses, quark condensates, and quark-gluon coupling constants. The coefficients of sufficient structures from both representations of the same correlation function are then equated to find the sum rules for the physical quantities under consideration. We apply Borel transformation and continuum subtraction to both sides of the sum rules in order to further suppress the contributions of the higher states and continuum.

Let us focus on the calculation of the hadronic side of the correlation function. For this aim we insert a complete set of intermediate physical states having the same quantum numbers as the interpolating current into (1). After performing integral over four- and setting , we getwhere dots indicate the contributions of the higher and continuum states. The matrix element creating the tensor mesons from vacuum can be written in terms of the decay constant, , as where is the polarization tensor. Using (6) in (5), the final expression of the physical side is obtained aswhere the only structure that we will use in our calculations has been shown explicitly. To obtain the above expression, we have used the summation over polarization tensors as where

Now we concentrate on the OPE side of the thermal correlation function. In OPE representation, the coefficient of the selected structure can be separated into perturbative and nonperturbative parts: The perturbative or short-distance contributions are calculated using the perturbation theory. This part in spectral representation is written as where is the spectral density and it is given by the imaginary part of the correlation function; that is, The nonperturbative or long-distance contributions are represented in terms of thermal expectation values of the quark and gluon condensates as well as thermal average of the energy density. Our main task in the following is to calculate the spectral density as well as the nonperturbative contributions. For this aim, we use the explicit forms of the interpolating currents for the tensor mesons in (1). After contracting out all quark fields using Wick’s theorem, we getTo proceed, we need to know the thermal light quark propagator in coordinate space which is given as [18, 23]where is the temperature-dependent quark condensate, is the fermionic part of the energy momentum tensor, and is the four-velocity vector of the heat bath. In the rest frame of the heat bath, and .

The next step is to use the expressions of the propagators and apply the derivatives with respect to and in (13). After lengthy but straightforward calculations, the spectral densities at different channels are obtained as where is the number of colors. From a similar way, for the nonperturbative contributions, we get

After matching the hadronic and OPE representations, applying Borel transformation with respect to , and performing continuum subtraction, we obtain the following temperature-dependent sum rule:where denotes the Borel transformation with respect to , is the Borel mass parameter, is the temperature-dependent continuum threshold, and can be , , or depending on the kind of tensor meson. The temperature-dependent mass of the considered tensor states is found as

3. Numerical Analysis

In this section, we discuss the sensitivity of the masses and decay constants of the , , and tensor mesons to temperature and compare the results obtained at zero temperature with the predictions of vacuum sum rules [19, 21] as well as the existing experimental data [22]. For this aim, we use some input parameters as MeV, MeV, and MeV [22] and GeV³ [24] and [25].

In further analysis, we need to know the expression of the light quark condensate at finite temperature calculated at different works (see, e.g., [26, 27]). In the present study, we use the parametrization obtained in [27] which is also consistent with the lattice results [28, 29]. For the temperature-dependent continuum threshold, we also use the parametrization obtained in [27] in terms of the temperature-dependent light quark condensate and continuum threshold in vacuum (). The continuum threshold is not completely arbitrary and is correlated with the energy of the first excited state with the same quantum numbers as the chosen interpolating currents. Our analysis reveals that, in the intervals (2.2–2.5) GeV², (2.4–2.7) GeV², and (3.0–3.3) GeV², respectively, for , , and channels, the results weakly depend on the continuum threshold. Hence, we consider these intervals as working regions of for the channels under consideration.

According to the general philosophy of the method used, the physical quantities under consideration should also be practically independent of the Borel mass parameter . The working regions for this parameter are determined by requiring that not only are the higher state and continuum contributions suppressed, but also the contributions of the highest order operator are small. Taking into account these conditions, we find that, in the interval , the results weakly depend on . Figure 1 indicates the dependence of the masses and decay constants on the Borel mass parameter at zero temperature. From this figure, we see that the results demonstrate good stability with respect to the variations of in its working region.

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Now, we proceed to discuss how the physical quantities under consideration behave in terms of temperature in the working regions of the auxiliary parameters and . For this aim, we present the dependence of the masses and decay constants on temperature at in Figures 2, 3, and 4. Note that we plot these figures up to the temperature at which the temperature-dependent continuum threshold vanishes; that is, MeV. From these figures, we see that the masses and decay constants diminish by increasing the temperature. Near to the temperature MeV, the decay constants of the , , and decrease with amount of , , and compared to their vacuum values, respectively, while the masses decrease about , , and for , , and states, respectively.

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Our final task is to compare the results of this work obtained at zero temperature with those of the vacuum sum rules as well as other existing theoretical predictions and experimental data. This comparison is made in Table 1. From this table, we see that the results on the masses and decay constants obtained at zero temperature are roughly consistent with existing experimental data as well as the vacuum sum rules and relativistic quark model predictions within the uncertainties. Our predictions on the decay constants of the light tensor mesons can be checked in future experiments. The results obtained in the present work can be used in theoretical determination of the electromagnetic properties of the light tensor mesons as well as their weak decay parameters and their strong couplings with other hadrons. Our results on the thermal behavior of the masses and decay constants can also be useful in analysis of the results of future heavy-ion collision experiments.

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgment

This work has been supported in part by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) under the Research Projects 110T284 and 114F018.

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