Speaker
Robert Pisarski
(Brookhaven National Lab.)
Description
A matrix model of the semi-QGP, the region near the critical
temperature, developed for the pure glue theory is applied
to QCD with dynamical quarks. We add new parameters to
address the spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry breaking.
The results of the model are compared to the latest results
from numerical simulations on the lattice. We compute the interaction measure, the susceptibilities for the light and strange quarks, and quark number susceptibilities to eighth order. We note that a mixed susceptibility, between the Polyakov loop and the chiral order parameter, shows a mild divergence near the chiral transition.
Author
Robert Pisarski
(Brookhaven National Lab.)
Co-author
Prof.
Vladimir Skokov
(RIKEN/BNL Research Center)
