6–12 Mar 2016
Costa da Caparica, Portugal
Europe/Lisbon timezone

Existence of the critical endpoint in the vector meson extended linear sigma model

10 Mar 2016, 17:00
30m
Costa da Caparica, Portugal

Costa da Caparica, Portugal

Ever Caparica - Beach & Conference Hotel Av. General Humberto Delgado, 47 2829-506 Costa da Caparica Portugal

Speaker

Zsolt Szép (MTA-ELTE Statistical and Biological Physics Research Group)

Description

In the framework of an SU(3) (axial)vector meson extended linear sigma model with additional constituent quarks and Polyakov loops, we investigate the effects of (axial)vector mesons on the chiral phase transition. The parameters of the Lagrangian are set at zero temperature and we use a hybrid approach where in the effective potential the constituent quarks are treated at one-loop level and all the mesons at tree-level. We have four order parameters, two scalar condensates and two Polyakov loop variables and their temperature and baryochemical potential dependence are determined from the corresponding field equations. We investigate the thermodynamics of the system, and at zero temperature we compare our results with lattice calculations. We study, furthermore, the changes of the tree-level scalar meson masses in the hot and dense medium.

Primary author

Zsolt Szép (MTA-ELTE Statistical and Biological Physics Research Group)

Co-authors

Gyuri Wolf (KFKI RMKI) Peter Kovacs (Wigner RCP)

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