Chiral Thermodynamics in a finite box

2016/11/11 by Juričić, Ana, Schaefer, Bernd-Jochen
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1611.03653

Abstract

Finite-volume modifications of the two-flavor chiral phase diagram are investigated within an effective quark-meson model in various mean-field approximations. The role of vacuum fluctuations and boundary conditions, their influence on higher cumulants and signatures of a possible pseudo-critical endpoint are amplified with smaller volumes.

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