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By using the extrapolation method, a polarized Polykov-loop potential at finite real angular velocity is constructed from the lattice results at finite imaginary angular velocity. The chiral and deconfinement phase transitions under…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-19 Fei Sun , Jingdong Shao , Rui Wen , Kun Xu , Mei Huang

We extend the Polyakov-loop improved Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model to 2+1 flavor case to study the chiral and deconfinement transitions of strongly interacting matter at finite temperature and nonzero chemical potential. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Wei-jie Fu , Zhao Zhang , Yu-xin Liu

Augmenting the improved chiral effective potential of the on-shell renormalized 2+1 flavour quark-meson (RQM) model with the Polyakov-loop potential that accounts for the deconfinement transition,~we get the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-22 Suraj Kumar Rai , Vivek Kumar Tiwari

Effects of a uniform (electro-) magnetic background field are investigated in the two-flavor nonlocal Polyakov-loop extended Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model. Temperature-dependences of the chiral order-parameter and the Polyakov-loop are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-05 Kouji Kashiwa

We propose a prescription to constrain the chiral effective model approach to the QCD phase diagram using the thermal Statistical Model, which is a description consistent with the experimental data at the freeze-out. In the transition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-27 Kenji Fukushima

The \(w_{\dagger}\)VCDM framework provides a theoretically well-controlled extension of \(\Lambda\)CDM within the class of minimally modified gravity theories, allowing for flexible cosmological background evolution and linear perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Artur Ladeira , Rafael C. Nunes , Supriya Pan , Weiqiang Yang

We investigate the phase diagram of the so-called Polyakov--Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model at finite temperature and nonzero chemical potential with three quark flavors. Chiral and deconfinement phase transitions are discussed, and the relevant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-10 Pedro Costa , C. A. de Sousa , M. C. Ruivo , H. Hansen

We study the equation of state of QCD using an improved version of the three-flavor Polyakov-Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model beyond the mean-field approximation. It incorporates the effects of unquenched quarks into the Polyakov-loop effective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Juan M. Torres-Rincon , Joerg Aichelin

The modification of mesonic observables in a hot medium is analyzed as a tool to investigate the restoration of chiral and axial symmetries in the context of the Polyakov-loop extended Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. The results of the extended…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-10 Pedro Costa , M. C. Ruivo , C. A. de Sousa , H. Hansen , W. M. Alberico

It is believed that there exists a rich phase structure of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at finite temperature and baryon density, namely, the deconfinement process from hadron gas to quark-gluon plasma, the transition from chiral symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-09 Rafael Cavagnoli , Debora P. Menezes , Constança Providência

We present a nonextensive version of the Polyakov-Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model which is based on the nonextentive statistical mechanics. This new statistics is characterized by a dimensionless nonextensivity parameter $q$ that accounts for all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Ya-Peng Zhao , Shu-Yu Zuo , Cheng-Ming Li

We develop the heat kernel method in the context of finite temperature quantum field theory. We compute the heat kernel expansion in the presence of general gauge and scalar fields which may be non Abelian and non stationary. The Polyakov…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-03 Eugenio Megias

The QCD phase transitions are investigated in the presence of an external magnetic field in the Polyakov improved Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model. We detailedly analyze that how the filling of multiple Landau levels by light (up and down)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Guo-yun Shao , Wei-bo He , Xue-yan Gao

Recent consensus on the $N_f=2+1$ equation of state at vanishing chemical potential from different lattice-QCD groups has spoiled the previous agreement with the outcome from the mean-field Polyakov-Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. In this letter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-28 Juan M. Torres-Rincon , Joerg Aichelin

The Monte-Carlo method is applied to the Polyakov-loop extended Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model. This leads beyond the saddle-point approximation in a mean-field calculation and introduces fluctuations around the mean fields. We study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 M. Cristoforetti , T. Hell , B. Klein , W. Weise

We review the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) approach to the dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The subjects treated in Part I include the vacuum structure of QCD, mass spectra and coupling constants of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 T. Hatsuda , T. Kunihiro

Exponential quintessence models motivated by string compactifications naturally involve both a dilatonic scalar and its axionic partner evolving on a curved field space, while spatial curvature enlarges the cosmological phase space and may…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Diego Gallego , J. Bayron Orjuela-Quintana

The aim of this work is to shed light on some lesser known aspects of Polyakov-loop--extended chiral models (namely the Polyakov-loop extended Nambu--Jona-Lasinio and Quark-Meson models), especially on the correlation of the quark sector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-06 Hubert Hansen , Rainer Stiele , Pedro Costa

The average phase factor of the QCD determinant is evaluated at finite quark chemical potential ({\mu}_q) with the two-flavor version of the Polyakov-loop extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model with the scalar-type eight-quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 Yuji Sakai , Takahiro Sasaki , Hiroaki Kouno , Masanobu Yahiro

This thesis investigates late-time cosmic acceleration using modified gravity theories with a focus on $f(Q)$ gravity, as an alternative to the $\Lambda$CDM model. The standard cosmological model attributes the acceleration to a…

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