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Mean field approach to flavor susceptibilities with a vector interaction

Nuclear Theory 2011-05-05 v2

Abstract

We show that flavor diagonal and off-diagonal susceptibilities of light quarks at vanishing chemical potential can be calculated consistently assuming the baryon density and isospin density dependence of QCD to be expressed by a vector-isoscalar and a vector-isovector coupling, respectively. At the mean field level, their expression depends only on the effective medium-dependent couplings and quark thermodynamic potential. The strength of the couplings can be then estimated from the model using lattice QCD data as an input.

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@article{arxiv.1003.4428,
  title  = {Mean field approach to flavor susceptibilities with a vector interaction},
  author = {L. Ferroni and V. Koch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.4428},
  year   = {2011}
}