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G. Marko

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The effect of the Polyakov loop on the chiral phase transition

The Polyakov loop is included in the SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R chiral quark-meson model by considering the propagation of the constituent quarks, coupled to the (sigma,pi) meson multiplet, on the homogeneous background of a temporal gauge field, diagonal in color space. The model is solved at finite temperature and quark baryon chemical potential both in the chiral limit and for the physical value of the pion mass by using an expansion in the number of flavors N_f. Keeping the fermion propagator at its tree-level, a resummation on the pion propagator is constructed which resums infinitely many orders in 1/N_f, where O(1/N_f) represents the order at which the fermions start to contribute in the pion propagator. The influence of the Polyakov loop on the tricritical or the critical point in the mu_q-T phase diagram is studied for various forms of the Polyakov loop potential.

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Influence of the Polyakov loop on the chiral phase transition in the two flavor chiral quark model

The SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R chiral quark model consisting of the (sigma,pi) meson multiplet and the constituent quarks propagating on the homogeneous background of a temporal gauge field is solved at finite temperature and quark baryon chemical potential mu_q using an expansion in the number of flavors N_f, both in the chiral limit and for the physical value of the pion mass. Keeping the fermion propagator at its tree-level, several approximations to the pion propagator are investigated. These approximations correspond to different partial resummations of the perturbative series. Comparing their solution with a diagrammatically formulated resummation relying on a strict large-N_f expansion of the perturbative series one concludes that only when the local part of the approximated pion propagator resums infinitely many orders in 1/N_f of fermionic contributions a sufficiently rapid crossover transition at mu_q=0 is achieved allowing for the existence of a tricritical point or a critical end point in the mu_q-T phase diagram. The renormalization and the possibility of determining the counterterms in the resummation provided by a strict large-N_f expansion are investigated.

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