Landau\'s two-component superfluid model and the quark-gluon plasma

• Autor(a) principal: Serenone, Willian Matioli
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Texto Completo: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/76/76131/tde-30082019-150313/
• topic: Colisão de íons pesados relativística; Cromodinâmica quântica; Integrais de trajetórias; Lattice QCD; Path integrals; Plasma de quarks e glúons; QCD na rede; Quantum chromodynamics; Quark-gluon plasma; Relativistic heavy-ion collisions

In this thesis we aim to test if Landau\'s two-component superfluid model is compatible with the quark-gluon-plasma description. We follow the test proposed by Chernodub et. al. [Two-component liquid model for the quark-gluon plasma. Theor. Math. Phys., v. 170, p. 211–216, 2012]. We start by reviewing the building process of a field theory with gauge symmetries and discussing the conservation laws associated to the theory’s symmetries. We explore the thermodynamic approach to quantum theory and the interesting fact that, when combined with a field theory, the path-integral formulation for quantum field theories emerges naturally. We also present the necessity of introducing a momentum cutoff into the theory and show that embedding space-time on a lattice is a way to introduce this cutoff and renormalize the theory. As a bonus, this also allows the numerical and non-perturbative evaluation of observables. We overview the phenomenological aspects of relativistic heavy-ion collisions and Landau’s two-component model for superfluids, along with a quantum-field-theory motivation for it, and explain details of the test proposed by Chernodub et. al.. Lastly, we show the implementation details of our simulation along with results. We do not see evidence that the proposed superfluid model is able to describe the plasma. We speculate that this might be caused by the absence of fermions in our simulations.