Quasiparticle description of hot QCD at finite quark chemical potential

Oct, 2003
12 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.C 69 (2004) 035210
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Report number:
  • TUM-T39-03-26

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Abstract:
We study the extension of a phenomenologically successful quasiparticle model that describes lattice results of the equation of state of the deconfined phase of QCD for Tc <= T < 4 Tc, to finite quark chemical potential mu. The phase boundary line Tc(mu), the pressure difference (p(T,mu)-p(T,mu=0))/T^4 and the quark number density nq(T,mu)/T^3 are calculated and compared to recent lattice results. Good agreement is found up to quark chemical potentials of order mu = Tc.
  • 12.38.Mh
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • finite temperature
  • quasiparticle
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • critical phenomena: confinement
  • potential: chemical
  • pressure
  • quark: density
  • temperature dependence