RT Journal Article T1 The SU(2) and SU(3) chiral phase transitions within chiral perturbation theory A1 Peláez Sagredo, José Ramón AB The SU(2) and SU(3) chiral phase transitions in a gas made of pions, kaons, and etas are studied within the framework of chiral perturbation theory. We describe the temperature dependence of the quark condensates by using the meson meson scattering phase shifts in a second order virial expansion. In particular, the SU(3) formalism yields a somewhat lower melting temperature for the nonstrange condensates than within SU(2), and also predicts that the strange condensate melting is slower than that of the nonstrange, due to the different strange and nonstrange quark masses. PB American Physical Society SN 0556-2821 YR 2002 FD 2002-11-01 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59870 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59870 LA eng NO ©2002 The American Physical Society.The author thanks A. Dobado, A. Gómez Nicola and E. Oset for useful comments, and support from the Spanish CICYTprojects FPA2000 0956 and BFM2000 1326, as well as the Marie Curie fellowship through Grant No. MCFI-2001-01155. NO Spanish CICYT NO Marie Curie fellowship DS Docta Complutense RD 3 abr 2025