Thermomagnetic modification of the anomalous magnetic moment of quarks using the NJL model

The effective photon-quark-antiquark (gamma q (q) over bar) vertex function is evaluated at finite temperature in the presence of an arbitrary external magnetic field using the two-flavor gauged Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model in the mean field approximation. The lowest order diagram contributing to the magnetic form factor and the anomalous magnetic moment (AMM) of the quarks is calculated at finite temperature and external magnetic field using the imaginary time formalism of finite temperature field theory and the Schwinger proper time formalism. The Schwinger propagator, including all the Landau levels with nonzero AMM of the dressed quarks, is considered while calculating the loop diagram. Using sharp as well as smooth threemomentum cutoff, we regularize the UV divergences arising from the vertex function and the parameters of our model are chosen to reproduce the well-known phenomenological quantities at zero temperature and zero magnetic field, such as pion-decay constant (f(pi)), vacuum quark condensate, and vacuum pion mass (m(pi)), as well as the magnetic moments of proton and neutron. We then study the temperature and magnetic field dependence of the AMM and constituent mass of the quark. We found that the AMM as well as the constituent quark mass are large at the chiral symmetry broken phase in the low temperature region. Around the pseudo-chiral phase transition, they decrease rapidly and at high temperatures both of them approach vanishingly small values in the symmetry restored phase.

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This study evaluates the effective photon-quark-antiquark vertex function at finite temperature in the presence of an arbitrary external magnetic field using the two-flavor gauged Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. The calculations include the magnetic form factor and anomalous magnetic moment of the quarks, considering the temperature and magnetic field dependence of the AMM and constituent mass of the quark. The results show that AMM and constituent quark mass are large in the chiral symmetry broken phase at low temperatures, decreasing rapidly around the pseudo-chiral phase transition, and approaching small values in the symmetry restored phase at high temperatures.