Zero temperature quark matter equation of state
Abstract
An equation of state is computed for a plasma of one flavor quarks interacting through some phenomenological potential, in the Hartree approximation, at zero temperature. Assuming that the confining potential is scalar and color-independent, it is shown that the quarks undergo a first-order mass phase transition. In addition, due to the way screening is introduced, all the thermodynamic quantities computed are independent of the actual shape of the interquark potential. This equation of state is then generalized to a potential with scalar and vector components. Fock corrections are discussed and the case of a several quark flavor plasma is studied.
- Publication:
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Presented at the Workshop on Variational Calculations in Quantum Field Theory
- Pub Date:
- September 1987
- Bibcode:
- 1987vcqd.work.....G
- Keywords:
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- Absolute Zero;
- Equations Of State;
- Plasmas (Physics);
- Quarks;
- Flavor (Particle Physics);
- Hartree Approximation;
- Matter (Physics);
- Phase Transformations;
- Potential Theory;
- Quantum Theory;
- Thermodynamic Properties;
- Weak Interactions (Field Theory);
- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics