https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817208002
Using the Linear Sigma Model with quarks to describe the QCD phase diagram and to locate the critical end point
Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-543, Ciudad de México 04510, México.
* e-mail: jose.flores@correo.nucleares.unam.mx
Published online: 26 January 2018
We study the QCD phase diagram using the linear sigma model coupled to quarks. We compute the effective potential at finite temperature and quark chemical potential up to ring diagrams contribution. We show that, provided the values for the pseudo-critical temperature Tc = 155 MeV and critical baryon chemical potential μBc ≃ 1 GeV, together with the vacuum sigma and pion masses. The model couplings can be fixed and that these in turn help to locate the region where the crossover transition line becomes first order.
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