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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 13, 2011
HCBM 2010 – International Workshop on Hot and Cold Baryonic Matter
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| Article Number | 02003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Critical Point and Phase Transition | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111302003 | |
| Published online | 19 April 2011 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111302003
The effect of the Polyakov loop on the chiral phase transition
1 Department of Atomic Physics, Eötvös University, H-l 117 Budapest, Hungary
2 Centre de Physique Théorique, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
a e-mail: smarkovics@hotmail.com
b e-mail: szepzs@achilles.elte.hu
The Polyakov loop is included in the S U(2)L × S U(2)R chiral quark-meson model by considering the propagation of the constituent quarks, coupled to the (σ, π) meson multiplet, on the homogeneous background of a temporal gauge field, diagonal in color space. The model is solved at finite temperature and quark baryon chemical potential both in the chiral limit and for the physical value of the pion mass by using an expansion in the number of flavors Nf. Keeping the fermion propagator at its tree-level, a resummation on the pion propagator is constructed which resums infinitely many orders in 1/Nf, where O(1/Nf) represents the order at which the fermions start to contribute in the pion propagator. The influence of the Polyakov loop on the tricritical or the critical point in the µq – T phase diagram is studied for various forms of the Polyakov loop potential.
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