Improving the cold quark-matter pressure via soft interactions at N3LO
arXiv:2111.11944 · doi:10.1051/epjconf/202225805004
Abstract
The propagation of long-wavelength gluons through a dense QCD medium at high baryon chemical potential mu_B is qualitatively modified by the effects of screening, arising from scatterings off the high-momentum quarks in the medium. This same screening phenomenon also impacts gluons occurring in loop corrections to the pressure of cold quark matter, leading to contributions from the parametric scale Sqrt(alpha_s)*mu_B, starting at next-to-next-to-leading order (N2LO) in the strong coupling constant alpha_s. At next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO), interactions between these long-wavelength gluonic modes contribute to the pressure. These interaction corrections have recently been computed in arXiv:2103.07427 and arXiv:2103.05658, and the inclusion of these interactions slightly improves the convergence of the equation of state of cold quark matter. In these proceedings, we present these results and provide details summarizing how this lengthy calculation was performed.
arXiv comment8 pages, 3 figures; contribution to the proceedings of A Virtual Tribute to Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum (vConf21), 2-6 August 2021
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