Landau Potential Study of the Chiral Phase Transition in a QCD-Like Theory
Abstract
We investigate the chiral phase transition of a QCD-like theory, based the shape change of the effective potential near the critical point. The potential is constructed with the auxiliary field method, and a source term coupled to the field is introduced in order to compute the potential shape numerically. We also generalize the potential so as to have two independent order parameters, the quark scalar density and the number density. We find a tri-critical point locating at (T,mu)=(97, 203) MeV, and visualize it as the merging point of three potential minima.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0702082,
title = {Landau Potential Study of the Chiral Phase Transition in a QCD-Like Theory},
author = {Y. Tsue and H. Fujii and Y. Hashimoto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0702082},
year = {2010}
}
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6 pages 4 figures, to appear in a special issue of Int. J. of Mod. Phys. E (the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions: Quark Matter 2006 (QM 2006), Shanghai, China, 14-20 Nov 2006)