15–20 Aug 2010
Hotel Normafa
Europe/Budapest timezone

Meson fluctuations and thermodynamics of the Polyakov loop extended quark-meson model.

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Hotel Normafa

Hotel Normafa

Eötvös út 54 H-1121 Budapest - Hungary

Speaker

Dr Vladimir Skokov (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)

Description

Thermodynamics and the phase structure of the Polyakov loop-extended two flavor chiral quark-meson model (PQM) are explored. The analysis of the PQM model is based on the functional renormalization group (FRG) method. An appropriate truncation of the effective action with quarks coupled to background gluonic fields is introduced. Within this scheme, we derive the renormalization group flow equation for the scale-dependent thermodynamic potential at finite temperature and density in the presence of a symmetry breaking external field. The influence of fluctuations and of the background gluon field on the properties of net-quark number density fluctuations and their higher moments is explored. We study the dependence of the kurtosis of quark number fluctuations on the pion mass and show that, in the presence of a symmetry breaking term, the fluctuations lead to a smoothing of observables near the crossover transition.

Primary author

Dr Vladimir Skokov (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)

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