Quasiparticle description of the QCD plasma, comparison with lattice results at finiteTand μ
Author(s) -
Kálmán Szabó,
A. Tóth
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of high energy physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998
H-Index - 261
eISSN - 1126-6708
pISSN - 1029-8479
DOI - 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/06/008
Subject(s) - quasiparticle , physics , quantum chromodynamics , lattice (music) , lattice qcd , phase diagram , plasma , thermal , condensed matter physics , baryon , quark–gluon plasma , particle physics , thermodynamics , phase (matter) , nuclear physics , quantum mechanics , superconductivity , acoustics
We compare our 2+1 flavor, staggered QCD lattice results with a quasiparticlepicture. We determine the pressure, the energy density, the baryon density, thespeed of sound and the thermal masses as a function of T and $\mu_B$. For theavailable thermodynamic quantities the difference is a few percent between theresults of the two approaches. We also give the phase diagram on the $\mu_B$--Tplane and estimate the critical chemical potential at vanishing temperature.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figure
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