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Nonextensive quasiparticle description of QCD matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-03-22 v3 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The dynamics of QCD matter is often described using effective mean field (MF) models based on Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) extensive statistics. However, such matter is normally produced in small packets and in violent collisions where the usual conditions justifying the use of BG statistics are not fulfilled and the systems produced are not extensive. This can be accounted for either by enriching the original dynamics or by replacing the BG statistics by its nonextensive counterpart described by a nonextensivity parameter q1q\neq 1 (for q1q \to 1 one returns to the extensive situation). In this work we investigate the interplay between the effects of dynamics and nonextensivity. Since the complexity of the nonextensive MF models prevents their simple visualization, we instead use some simple quasi-particle description of QCD matter in which the interaction is modelled phenomenologically by some effective fugacities, zz. Embedding such a model in a nonextensive environment allows for a well-defined separation of the dynamics (represented by zz) and the nonextensivity (represented by qq) and a better understanding of their relationship.

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@article{arxiv.1810.07008,
  title  = {Nonextensive quasiparticle description of QCD matter},
  author = {Jacek Rożynek and Grzegorz Wilk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.07008},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Thorougly reworked version published in Symmetry 2019, 11(3), 401, as contribution to the Special Issue Nambu--Jona-Lassinio model and its applications; 22 pages, 7 figures

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