Quark-mass dependence of the three-flavor QCD phase diagram at zero and imaginary chemical potential: Model prediction

Takahiro Sasaki, Yuji Sakai, Hiroaki Kouno, Masanobu Yahiro

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Abstract

We draw the three-flavor phase diagram as a function of light- and strange-quark masses for both zero and imaginary quark-number chemical potential, using the Polyakov-loop extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with an effective four-quark vertex depending on the Polyakov loop. The model prediction is qualitatively consistent with 2+1 flavor lattice QCD prediction at zero chemical potential and with degenerate three-flavor lattice QCD prediction at imaginary chemical potential.

Original languageEnglish
Article number091901
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume84
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 4 2011

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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