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most citedThe QCD phase diagram from Schwinger-Dyson Equations

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hep-ph2023

Robust features of QCD phase diagram through a Contact Interaction model for quarks: A view from the effective potential

Aftab Ahmad, Muhammad Azher, Alfredo Raya

Our research delves into the QCD phase diagram in the temperature and quark chemical potential plane. We use a unique confining contact interaction effective model of quark…

hep-ph2023

Schwinger Pair Production in QCD from Flavor-Dependent Contact Interaction Model of Quarks

Aftab Ahmad, Akif Farooq

We study the Schwinger mechanism in QCD i.e., the quark-antiquark pair production rate in the presence of pure electric field strength , for a higher number of colors …

gr-qc2022★ 4 cited

Energy Conditions in Extended Gravity

M. Ilyas, Aftab Ahmad, Fawad Khan +1

In this paper, we consider the flat Friedmann Lematre Robertson-Walke metric in the presence of perfect fluid models and extended gravity (where is the Ricci scalar,…

hep-ph2022★ 6 cited

Color-flavor dependence of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and QCD phase diagram

Aftab Ahmad, Ali Murad

We study the dynamical chiral symmetry breaking/restoration for the various numbers of light quarks flavors and colors , using the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model of quar…

hep-ph2020

Chiral Symmetry Restoration and Deconfinement in the Contact Interaction Model of Quarks with a Parallel Electric and Magnetic Fields

Aftab Ahmad

We study the impact of steady, homogeneous, and external parallel electric and magnetic field strength (), on the chiral symmetry breaking-restoration and confineme…

hep-ph2020★ 10 cited

Color, Flavor, Temperature and Magnetic Field Dependence of QCD Phase Diagram: Magnetic Catalysis and its Inverse

Aftab Ahmad, Adnan Bashir, Marco A. Bedolla +1

We study dynamical chiral symmetry breaking for quarks in the fundamental representation of for number of light quark flavors. We also investigate the phase diagram…

hep-ph2018★ 6 cited

Super-Strong Coupling NJL model in arbitrary space-time dimensions

Aftab Ahmad, Angelo Martínez, Alfredo Raya

We study chiral symmetry breaking in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model regularized in proper-time in arbitrary space-time dimensions through an iterative procedure by writing the gap e…

hep-ph2016★ 29 cited

Master formulas for the dressed scalar propagator in a constant field

Aftab Ahmad, Naser Ahmadiniaz, Olindo Corradini +2

The worldline formalism has previously been used for deriving compact master formulas for the one-loop N-photon amplitudes in both scalar and spinor QED, and in the vacuum as well…

hep-ph2016★ 27 cited

Inverse magnetic catalysis and confinement within a contact interaction model for quarks

Aftab Ahmad, Alfredo Raya

We evaluate the impact of an external magnetic field on the chiral symmetry and confinement-deconfinement transition temperatures by using a vector-vector contact interaction model…

nucl-th2015★ 3 cited

The dual quark condensate in local and nonlocal NJL models: an order parameter for deconfinement?

Federico Marquez, Aftab Ahmad, Michael Buballa +1

We study the beahviour of the dual quark condensate in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model and its nonlocal variant. In quantum chromodynamics can be realted to the brea…

hep-ph2013★ 30 cited

The QCD phase diagram from Schwinger-Dyson Equations

Enif Gutierrez, Aftab Ahmad, Alejandro Ayala +2

We study the phase diagram of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). For this purpose we employ the Schwinger-Dyson equations (SDEs) technique and construct a truncation of the infinite tow…