Quasiparticle picture of quarks near chiral transition at finite temperature

Abstract

We investigate, using a chiral effective model, the quark spectrum in the critical region of the chiral transition focusing on the effect of the possible mesonic excitations in the quark-gluon plasma phase. We find that there appears a novel three-peak structure in the quark spectra. We elucidate the mechanism of the appearance of the multi-peak structure with the help of a Yukawa model with an elementary boson.

Comments: 4 pages, 5 eps figures, to appear in the proceedings of International Conference on Strong & Electroweak Matter 2006, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, May 10-13, 2006