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Role of Vector Interaction and Axial Anomaly in the PNJL Modeling of the QCD Phase Diagram

arXiv:1204.3788 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2013.01.003

Abstract

Effects of a flavor singlet vector interaction in the Polyakov - Nambu - Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model are studied in combination with the axial U(1) breaking Kobayashi - Maskawa - 't Hooft interaction. Using a consistent cutoff scheme we investigate the QCD phase diagram and its dependence on the vector coupling strength . We find that the first order chiral phase transition at moderate baryon chemical potentials and its critical point, a generic feature of most NJL-type models without vector coupling, disappear for sufficiently large values of that are consistent with lattice QCD results at imaginary chemical potential. The influence of non-zero on the curvature of the crossover boundary in the plane close to is also examined.

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