1–5 Sept 2026
University of Sussex
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Self-consistent quark-meson spectral functions

1 Sept 2026, 17:03
1m
Large Lecture Theatre (Jubilee Building)

Large Lecture Theatre

Jubilee Building

Speaker

Konrad Kockler (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universitat Heidelberg)

Description

We present a self-consistent, manifestly Lorentz-invariant computation of real-time quark and meson spectral functions in the two-flavour Quark-Meson model, performed directly on the Minkowski axis using the spectral functional renormalisation group with emergent composites. The present work hosts two qualitative improvements over other spectral functional works so far. The first one is the inclusion of all-order scatterings via a full effective potential. The second one is the resolution of higher order decays and, in particular, the $\pi \to 3\pi$ scattering threshold - the lowest kinematically accessible channel for the pion. Moreover, the sigma mode exhibits a Breit-Wigner resonance reflecting its instability against decay into two pions.

Affiliation Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg
Career status PhD student

Authors

Konrad Kockler (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universitat Heidelberg) Jan M. Pawlowski Jonas Wessely (Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen) Ruwen Schulz (Heidelberg Institute of Physics)

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