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Polyakov loop potential at finite density

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-16 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The Polyakov loop potential serves to distinguish between the confined hadronic and the deconfined quark-gluon plasma phases of QCD. For Nf=2+1 quark flavors with physical masses we determine the Polyakov loop potential at finite temperature and density and extract the location of the deconfinement transition. We find a cross-over at small values of the chemical potential running into a critical end-point at mu/T > 1.

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@article{arxiv.1306.6022,
  title  = {Polyakov loop potential at finite density},
  author = {Christian S. Fischer and Leonard Fister and Jan Luecker and Jan M. Pawlowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.6022},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 9 figures

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