Approaching the QCD phase diagram for Nf=2+1 and Nf=2+1+1 quark flavors
Abstract
Recent results for the QCD phase structure at finite temperature and light-quark chemical potential are summarized, where the cases of Nf = 2 + 1 and Nf = 2+1+1 dynamical quark flavors are considered. Order parameters for the chiral and deconfinement transitions are obtained from solutions of a coupled set of truncated Dyson-Schwinger equations for the quark and gluon propagators of Landau gauge QCD. Based on very good agreement with lattice QCD for zero chemical potential the phase diagram in the whole T-μ-plane and the appearance of a putative critical end-point at large chemical potential are studied.
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