We perform a detailed analysis of the predictions of resummed perturbation theory for the pressure and the second-, fourth-, and sixth-order diagonal quark number susceptibilities in a hot and dense quark-gluon plasma. First, we present an exact one-loop calculation of the equation of state within hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory (HTLpt) and compare it to a previous one-loop HTLpt calculation that employed an expansion in the ratios of thermal masses and the temperature. We find that this expansion converges reasonably fast. We then perform a resummation of the existing four-loop weak coupling expression for the pressure, motivated by dimensional reduction. Finally, we compare the exact one-loop HTLpt and resummed dimensional reduction results with state-of-the-art lattice calculations and a recent mass-expanded three-loop HTLpt calculation. D Branch cut discontinuities 33 E Mass expansion of the one-loop HTLpt pressure 36 E.1 Separation of scales 36 E.2 HTL master sum-integrals 36 -1 -
We evaluate the second and fourth order quark number susceptibilities in hot
QCD using two variations of resummed perturbation theory. On one hand, we carry
out a one-loop calculation within hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory, and on
the other hand perform a resummation of the four-loop finite density equation
of state derived using a dimensionally reduced effective theory. Our results
are subsequently compared with recent high precision lattice data, and their
agreement thoroughly analyzed.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. v3: Figures updated, published in Phys. Rev.
A detailed analysis is presented of the precise values of the Tsallis parameters obtained in p − p collisions for identified particles, pions, kaons and protons at the LHC at three beam energies √ s = 0.9, 2.76 and 7 TeV. Interpolated data at √ s = 5.02 TeV have also been included. It is shown that the Tsallis formula provides reasonably good fits to the p T distributions in p − p collisions at the LHC using three parameters dN/dy, T and q. However, the parameters T and q depend on the particle species and are different for pions, kaons and protons. As a consequence there is no m T scaling and also no universality of the parameters for different particle species.
We analytically investigate the thermodynamic variables of a hot and dense
system, in the framework of the Tsallis non-extensive classical statistics.
After a brief review, we start by recalling the corresponding massless limits
for all the thermodynamic variables. We then present the detail of calculation
for the exact massive result regarding the pressure -- valid for all values of
the $q$-parameter -- as well as the Tsallis $T$-, $\mu$- and $m$- parameters,
the former characterizing the non-extensivity of the system. The results for
other thermodynamic variables, in the massive case, readily follow from
appropriate differentiations of the pressure, for which we provide the
necessary formulas. For the convenience of the reader, we tabulate all of our
results. A special emphasis is put on the method used in order to perform these
computations, which happens to reduce cumbersome momentum integrals into
simpler ones. Numerical consistency between our analytic results and the
corresponding usual numerical integrals are found to be perfectly consistent.
Finally, it should be noted that our findings substantially simplify
calculations within the Tsallis framework. The latter being extensively used in
various different fields of science as for example, but not limited to,
high-energy nucleus collisions, we hope to enlighten a number of possible
applications.Comment: 9 page
We study the pressure anisotropy in anisotropic finite-size systems in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory at nonzero temperature. Lattice simulations are performed on lattices with anisotropic spatial volumes with periodic boundary conditions. The energy-momentum tensor defined through the gradient flow is used for the analysis of the stress tensor on the lattice. We find that a clear finite-size effect in the pressure anisotropy is observed only at a significantly shorter spatial extent compared with the free scalar theory, even when accounting for a rather large mass in the latter.
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