Inverse magnetic catalysis in the linear sigma model

Abstract

We compute the critical temperature for the chiral transition in the background of a magnetic field in the linear sigma model, including the quark contribution and the thermo-magnetic effects induced on the coupling constants at one loop level. For the analysis, we go beyond mean field aproximation, by taking one loop thermo-magnetic corrections to the couplings as well as plasma screening effects for the boson's masses, expressed through the ring diagrams. We found inverse magnetic catalysis, i.e. a decreasing of the critical chiral temperature as function of the intensity of the magnetic field, which seems to be in agreement with recent results from the lattice community.