| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1853132 | Physics Letters B | 2014 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The Polyakov loop potential serves to distinguish between the confined hadronic and the deconfined quark–gluon plasma phases of QCD. For Nf=2+1Nf=2+1 quark flavors with physical masses we determine the Polyakov loop potential at finite temperature and density and extract the location of the deconfinement transition. We find a crossover at small values of the chemical potential running into a critical end-point at μ/T>1μ/T>1.
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Authors
Christian S. Fischer, Leonard Fister, Jan Luecker, Jan M. Pawlowski,