We propose a μ-dependent coupling for a fractal effective model (FNJL) to make the results for the phase diagram compatible with the experimental data and lattice QCD calculations. The μ-dependence of the coupling, which accounts for gluon effects, is obtained by fitting the lattice QCD results for the pseudo-critical temperature with the fractal model. We then use the new effective coupling in order to compute the dynamical mass, the quark condensate, the thermal susceptibility and, finally, the T×μ phase diagram. We consider both extensive and non-extensive statistics, and with a slight variation in the μ-dependent coupling parameters we provide a single result for our model which is able to describe incredibly well the data from STAR, considering the simplicity of the effective model.
@article{arxiv.2509.08396,
title = {$T \times \mu$ phase diagram from a fractal NJL model},
author = {E. Megias and A. Deppman and V. S. Timóteo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.08396},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
The authors do not agree regarding the theoretical consistency of the model and the future direction of this research