QCD phase structure from functional methods

Fei Gao, Jan M. Pawlowski

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Abstract

We discuss the QCD phase structure at finite temperature and chemical potential for 2-flavor and 2+1-flavor QCD. The results are achieved by computing QCD correlation functions within a generalized functional approach that combines Dyson-Schwinger equations (DSE) and the functional renormalization group (fRG). In this setup fRG precision data from [A. K. Cyrol, M. Mitter, J. M. Pawlowski, and N. Strodthoff, Phys. Rev. D 97, 054006 (2018).PRVDAQ2470-001010.1103/PhysRevD.97.054006] for the vacuum quark-gluon vertex and gluon propagator of 2-flavor QCD used as input, and the respective DSEs are expanded about this input. While the vacuum results for other correlation functions serve as a self-consistency check for functional approaches, the results at finite temperature and density are computed, for the first time, without the need of phenomenological infrared parameters.

Original languageEnglish
Article number034027
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume102
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Aug 2020
Externally publishedYes

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