Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8192361 | Physics Letters B | 2011 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
The Polyakov-extended quark-meson model (PQM) is investigated beyond mean-field. This represents an important step towards a fully dynamical QCD computation. Both the quantum fluctuations to the matter sector and the back-reaction of the matter fluctuations to the QCD Yang-Mills sector are included. Results on the chiral and confinement-deconfinement crossover/phase transition lines and the location of a possible critical endpoint are presented. Moreover, thermodynamic quantities such as the pressure and the quark density are discussed.
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Authors
Tina Katharina Herbst, Jan M. Pawlowski, Bernd-Jochen Schaefer,