14–19 Jun 2010
Villasimius, Sardinia
Europe/Rome timezone

The critical line of QCD with four degenerate quarks

15 Jun 2010, 15:10
20m
Room2 (Villasimius, Sardinia)

Room2

Villasimius, Sardinia

Tanka Village
Nonzero temperature and density Parallel 27: Nonzero temperature and density

Speaker

Leonardo Cosmai (INFN Bari)

Description

We determine the pseudo-critical couplings at imaginary chemical potentials by high-statistics Monte Carlo simulations of QCD with four degenerate quarks at non-zero temperature and baryon density by the method of analytic continuationan. We reveal deviations from the simple quadratic dependence on the chemical potential visible in earlier works on the same subject. Finally, we discuss the implications of our findings for the shape of the pseudo-critical line at real chemical potential, comparing different possible extrapolations.
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Primary authors

Prof. Alessandro Papa (INFN Cosenza and Università della Calabria) Leonardo Cosmai (INFN Bari) Dr Massimo D'Elia (INFN Genova and Università di Genova) Prof. Paolo Cea (INFN Bari and Università di Bari)

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