Magnetized QCD phase diagram: net-baryon susceptibilities

Abstract

Employing the Polyakov extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, we determine the net-baryon number fluctuations of magnetized three-flavor quark matter. We show that the magnetic field changes the nature of the strange quark transition from crossover to first-order at low temperatures. In fact, the strange quark undergoes multiple first-order phase transitions and several critical end points emerge in the phase diagram.

Contribution to the International Meeting "Excited QCD", Kopaonik, Serbia, March 11-15, 2018

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