Speaker
Mr
Sandeep Chatterjee
(PhD student)
Description
We consider the $(2+1)$ flavor Polyakov Quark Meson Model (PQM) and study the effect of including fermion vacuum fluctuations on the thermodynamics and phase diagram. The variation of the thermodynamic quantities across the phase transition region becomes smoother.
This results in better agreement with the lattice QCD (LQCD) data. The critical end point is pushed into higher values of the chemical potential. We then go on to study the fluctuations (correlations)
of conserved charges in PQM upto sixth (fourth) order. Comparison is made with LQCD wherever available and overall good qualitative agreement is found, more so for the case of the normalised susceptibilities. Our study provides a solid basis for the use of PQM as an effective model to understand the topology of the QCD phase diagram.
Primary author
Mr
Sandeep Chatterjee
(PhD student)
Co-author
Mr
Kirtimaan A. Mohan
(PhD student)
