Published May 1, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Phase diagram of QCD with four degenerate quarks

  • 1. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita della Calabria, I-87036 Rende, Cosenza (Italy) and INFN, Gruppo collegato di Cosenza, I-87036 Rende, Cosenza (Italy)
  • 2. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita di Genova, I-16146 Genova (Italy) and INFN, Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova (Italy)
  • 3. INFN, Sezione di Bari, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
  • 4. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita di Bari, I-70126 Bari (Italy) and INFN, Sezione di Bari, I-70126 Bari (Italy)

Description

We revisit the determination of the pseudocritical line of QCD with four degenerate quarks at nonzero temperature and baryon density by the method of analytic continuation. We determine the pseudocritical couplings at imaginary chemical potentials by high-statistics Monte Carlo simulations and reveal deviations from the simple quadratic dependence on the chemical potential visible in earlier works on the same subject. Finally, we discuss the implications of our findings for the shape of the pseudocritical line at real chemical potential, comparing different possible extrapolations.

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
81
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 094502-094502.7
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

Optional Information

Notes
(c) 2010 The American Physical Society