Study of the Critical Point in Lattice QCD at High Temperature and Density.

Ejiri, S.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Phase transitions;    Quantum chromodynamics (QCD);    Quark matter;    Temperature;    Density;   

RP-ID  :  DE2008920315

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

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来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

We propose a method to probe the nature of phase transitions in lattice QCD at finite temperature and density, which is based on the investigation of an effective potential as a function of the average plaquette. We analyze data obtained in a simulation of two-flavor QCD using p4-improved staggered quarks with bare quark mass m/T = 0.4, and find that a first order phase transition line appears in the high density regime for micro(sub q)/T equal to or greater than 2.5. The effective potential as a function of the quark number density is also studied. We calculate the chemical potential as a function of the density from the canonical partition function and discuss the existence of the first order phase transition line.