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Phase structure and critical phenomena in 2-flavor QCD by holography
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- We explore the phase structure of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) with two dynamical quark flavors at finite temperature and baryon chemical potential, employing the non-perturbative gauge/gravity duality approach. Our gravitational model is tailored to align with state-of-the-art lattice data regarding the thermal properties of multi-flavor QCD. Following a rigorous parameter calibration to match equations of state and the QCD trace anomaly at zero chemical potential derived from cutting-edge lattice QCD simulations, we investigate thermodynamic quantities and order parameters. We predict the location of the critical endpoint (CEP) at $(\mu_{\text{CEP}}, T_{\text{CEP}})=(219,182)$ MeV at which a line of first-order phase transitions terminate. We compute critical exponents associated with the CEP and find that they almost coincide with the critical exponents of the quantum 3D Ising model.<br />Comment: 20 pages, 12 figures
- Subjects :
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2310.13432
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.086015