Employing the Polyakov extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, we determine the net-baryon number fluctuations of magnetized three-flavor quark matter. We show that the magnetic field changes the nature of the strange quark transition from crossover to first-order at low temperatures. In fact, the strange quark undergoes multiple first-order phase transitions and several critical end points emerge in the phase diagram.
@article{arxiv.1810.09139,
title = {Magnetized QCD phase diagram: net-baryon susceptibilities},
author = {Márcio Ferreira and Pedro Costa and Constança Providência},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.09139},
year = {2018}
}
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Contribution to the International Meeting "Excited QCD", Kopaonik, Serbia, March 11-15, 2018