Chiral symmetry restoration and the critical end point in QCD

Abstract

In a system of quark matter we study the chiral phase transition, the behavior of the chiral and quark number susceptibility and the CEP at finite temperature and chemical potential. This is done within the framework of two-flavor Nambu and Jona-Lasinio model. We have calculated the chiral quark condensate and the quark number density and, with this, we have found the phase transition type. With these quantities we have determined the phase diagram for QCD and the CEP.

Keywords

• chiral phase transition
• critical end point
• dynamical mass
• critical behavior
• dynamical chiral symmetry breaking
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