Abstract
The PNJL model is used to study the thermodynamics of Nf ≤ 2 quark flavours interacting through chiral four-point couplings and propagating in a homogeneous Polyakov loop background. The input is fixed exclusively by selected pure-gauge lattice QCD results and by pion properties in vacuum. We present successful comparisons with lattice QCD thermodynamics expanded to finite chemical potential μq. Quark number susceptibilities at finite quark chemical potential are investigated. The validity of the Taylor expansion is then examined through a comparison between the full and truncated PNJL model calculations.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | S64 |
| Pages (from-to) | S647-S650 |
| Journal | Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 8 |
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| State | Published - 1 Aug 2007 |