The effect of charm quark on the QCD chiral phase diagram

Abstract

We study the influence of charm-quark dynamics on the chiral phase structure of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) using the recently developed miniDSE scheme for the Dyson-Schwinger equations. By comparing the quark and gluon propagators in the $2+1$- and $2+1+1$-flavor setups within the same truncation scheme, we qualify the impact of the charm-quark loop on the QCD phase diagram. Our results show that the charm quark has only a mild effect on the crossover boundary, which remains almost unchanged within the present setup. The most visible effect is a small shift of the critical endpoint (CEP) toward lower baryon chemical potential, by approximately $3\%$. The present result provides a controlled estimate of the charm-loop effect within the same miniDSE truncation. It indicates that heavy-flavor contributions may become relevant when aiming at precision studies of the CEP location.

arXiv comment7 pages, 4 figures, version published in Phys. Rev. D

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