Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9851006 | Nuclear Physics A | 2005 | 14 Pages |
Abstract
Within the proper-time renormalization group approach, the chiral phase diagram of a two-flavor quark-meson model is studied. In the chiral limit, the location of the tricritical point which is linked to a Gaussian fixed point, is determined. For quark chemical potentials smaller than the tricritical one the second-order phase transition belongs to the O(4) universality class. For temperatures below the tricritical one we find initially a weak first-order phase transition which is commonly seen in model studies and also in recent lattice simulations. In addition, below temperatures of Tâ²17MeV we find two phase transitions. The chiral restoration transition is initially also of first-order but turns into a second-order transition again. This leads to the possibility that there may be a “second tricritical” point in the QCD phase diagram in the chiral limit.
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Authors
B.-J. Schaefer, J. Wambach,