Published April 19, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

The QCD critical end point in the SU(3) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model

  • 1. Departamento de Fisica, Universidade de Coimbra, P-3004-516 Coimbra (Portugal) and Laboratory of Information Technologies, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russian Federation)
  • 2. Departamento de Fisica, Universidade de Coimbra, P-3004-516 Coimbra (Portugal)
  • 3. Universite de Liege, Department de Physique B5, Sart Tilman, B-4000, Liege 1 (Belgium) and Laboratory of Information Technologies, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russian Federation)

Description

We study the chiral phase transition at finite temperature T and baryonic chemical potential μB within the framework of the SU(3) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model. The QCD critical end point (CEP) and the critical line at finite T and μB are investigated: the study of physical quantities, such as the baryon number susceptibility and the specific heat in the vicinity the CEP, will provide relevant information concerning the order of the phase transition. The class of the CEP is determined by calculating the critical exponents of those quantities

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.02.045;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-ph/0701135v2;
PII
S0370-2693(07)00265-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
647
Journal Issue
5-6
Journal Page Range
p. 431-435
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.