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Dynamical Locking of the Chiral and the Deconfinement Phase Transition in QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-27 v1

Abstract

We study the fixed-point structure of four-fermion interactions in two-flavor QCD with Nc colors close to the finite-temperature phase boundary. In particular, we analyze how the fixed-point structure of four-fermion interactions is related to the confining dynamics in the gauge sector. We show that there exists indeed a mechanism which dynamically locks the chiral phase transition to the deconfinement phase transition. This mechanism allows us to determine a window for the values of physical observables in which the two phase transitions lie close to each other.

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@article{arxiv.1102.4841,
  title  = {Dynamical Locking of the Chiral and the Deconfinement Phase Transition in QCD},
  author = {Jens Braun and Alexander Janot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.4841},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages, 5 figures