English

Phase diagram and isentropic curves from the vector meson extended Polyakov quark meson model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-11-30 v1

Abstract

In the framework of the Nf=2+1N_f = 2+1 flavor (axial)vector meson extended Polyakov quark meson model we investigate the QCD phase diagram at finite temperature and density. We use a χ2\chi^2 minimization procedure to parameterize the model based on tree\,-\,level decay widths and vacuum scalar and pseudoscalar curvature masses which incorporate the contribution of the constituent quarks. Using a hybrid approximation (mesons at tree level, fermions at one\,-\,loop level) for the grand potential we determine the phase boundary both on the μBT\mu_B-T and ρT\rho-T planes. We also determine the location of the critical end point of the phase diagram. Moreover by calculating the pressure and other thermodynamical quantities derived from it, we determine a set of isentropic curves in the crossover region. We show that the curves behave very similarly as their counterparts obtained from the lattice in the crossover regime.

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@article{arxiv.1711.10859,
  title  = {Phase diagram and isentropic curves from the vector meson extended Polyakov quark meson model},
  author = {Péter Kovács and György Wolf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.10859},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures, Presented at Excited QCD 2017, 7-13 May 2017, Sintra, Portugal