Thermodynamics of Soft Wall Model in Einstein-Maxwell-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity

Abstract

We investigate the thermodynamics of confnement/deconfinement transition in soft wall model of QCD with Gauss-Bonnet corrections using AdS/CFT correspondence. In bulk AdS space-time the transition is geometric and is known as Hawking-Page transition. The Hawking-Page transition be- tween two geometries, namely charged AdS black hole and thermally charged AdS have been studied with Gauss-Bonnet corrections up-to first order. The Gauss-Bonnet coupling modifies the transition temperature of the system, but qualitative features remain unchanged. We obtain the curves between chemical potential and transition temperature for different values of Gauss-Bonnet couplings. We find that there exist a point in $\mu-T$ plane where lines with different value of Gauss-Bonnet coupling cross each other. This point may be the onset of the transition from first order to cross over behavior. The results are compared with that of the hard wall model.