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Phase transitions in heavy-quark QCD from an effective theory

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2015-06-11 v1

Abstract

With combined hopping parameter and strong coupling expansions, we calculate a dimensionally reduced Polyakov-loop effective theory valid for heavy quarks at nonzero temperature and arbitrary chemical potential. We numerically compute the critical endpoint of the deconfinement transition as a function of quark masses and number of flavours. We also investigate the applicability of the model to the low-T and high density region, specifically in terms of baryon condensation phenomena.

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@article{arxiv.1210.7994,
  title  = {Phase transitions in heavy-quark QCD from an effective theory},
  author = {Michael Fromm and Jens Langelage and Stefano Lottini and Mathias Neuman and Owe Philipsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.7994},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Proceeding for Extreme QCD (xQCD 2012), August 21-23 2012, Washington DC, U.S.A.; 5 pages, 2 figures; uses jpconf.cls