Published May 1, 2010
| Version v1
Journal article
Phase diagram of QCD with four degenerate quarks
Creators
- 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
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.094502;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1004.0184v1;
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
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 42003122
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BARYONS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; COUPLING; DENSITY; EXTRAPOLATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHASE DIAGRAMS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUARKS
- Descriptors DEC
- CALCULATION METHODS; DIAGRAMS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; HADRONS; INFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SIMULATION
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2010 The American Physical Society