Thermal properties of the ρ meson from a machine-learning-improved holographic QCD model
Abstract
The thermal properties of the ρ meson are revisited within the soft-wall AdS/QCD framework. The dilaton background is calibrated against lattice QCD screening-mass data through a neural-network-assisted inverse procedure. Using this calibrated background, we compute the temporal vector spectral function and the lowest vector quasi-normal modes. The pole mass mpole(T) and thermal width Γ(T) are then extracted from the corresponding complex quasi-normal mode frequencies. Adopting the vanishing real part of the quasi-normal mode frequency, ωRe(Td)=0, as a criterion for meson dissociation, we estimate Td≈168 MeV. As the temperature increases, the thermal width grows, and the spectral function evolves from a narrow Breit-Wigner-like resonance peak into a transport peak, confirming the QNM prediction that the vanishing of the pole mass is accompanied by the emergence of a transport peak and making it difficult to identify a quasiparticle peak. A numerical extraction of the dispersion relation shows that the propagator can be described by a finite-temperature simple-pole form with momentum-dependent thermal width, characterized by a diffusion coefficient D(T) and an effective propagation speed u(T), whose temperature dependences are also extracted. This form modifies the usual relation between the screening and pole masses. These results may provide a useful reference for effective studies of the hot hadronic medium.
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BibTeX
@misc{jiang2026thermal,
title = {{Thermal properties of the $ρ$ meson from a machine-learning-improved holographic QCD model}},
author = {Jia-Jie Jiang and Han Tang and Danning Li and Lang Yu},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.20348},
eprint = {2610.20348},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20348},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Thermal properties of the ρ meson from a machine-learning-improved holographic QCD model
AU - Jia-Jie Jiang
AU - Han Tang
AU - Danning Li
AU - Lang Yu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/14
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.20348
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20348
AB - The thermal properties of the ρ meson are revisited within the soft-wall AdS/QCD framework. The dilaton background is calibrated against lattice QCD screening-mass data through a neural-network-assisted inverse procedure. Using this calibrated background, we compute the temporal vector spectral function and the lowest vector quasi-normal modes. The pole mass m_pole(T) and thermal width Γ(T) are then extracted from the corresponding complex quasi-normal mode frequencies. Adopting the vanishing real part of the quasi-normal mode frequency, ω_Re(T_d)=0, as a criterion for meson dissociation, we estimate T_d≈168 MeV. As the temperature increases, the thermal width grows, and the spectral function evolves from a narrow Breit-Wigner-like resonance peak into a transport peak, confirming the QNM prediction that the vanishing of the pole mass is accompanied by the emergence of a transport peak and making it difficult to identify a quasiparticle peak. A numerical extraction of the dispersion relation shows that the propagator can be described by a finite-temperature simple-pole form with momentum-dependent thermal width, characterized by a diffusion coefficient D(T) and an effective propagation speed u(T), whose temperature dependences are also extracted. This form modifies the usual relation between the screening and pole masses. These results may provide a useful reference for effective studies of the hot hadronic medium.
ER -