# Pressure of a weakly magnetized hot and dense deconfined QCD matter in one-loop hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory

## TL;DR

This paper calculates the pressure and Debye mass of hot, dense, magnetized QCD matter using one-loop hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory, providing analytic results in weak magnetic fields and exploring their dependence on temperature, chemical potential, and magnetic field.

## Contribution

It introduces analytic expressions for the pressure and Debye mass of magnetized QCD matter within weak field approximation using HTLpt, including high temperature expansions and gauge independence.

## Key findings

- Pressure depends strongly on magnetic field at low temperature.
- Analytic gauge-independent expressions are obtained for high temperature.
- Debye mass exhibits features depending on quark mass, temperature, and magnetic field.

## Abstract

We consider our recently obtained general structure of two point (self-energy and propagator) functions of quarks and gluons in a nontrivial background like a heat bath and an external magnetic field. Based on this, here we have computed free energy and pressure of quarks and gluons for a magnetized hot and dense deconfined QCD matter in weak field approximation. For heat bath we have used hard thermal loop perturbation theory (HTLpt) in presence of finite chemical potential. For weak field approximations we have obtained the pressure of QCD matter, both with and without the high temperature expansion. The results with high $T$ expansions are completely analytic and gauge independent but depends on the renormalization scale in addition to the temperature, chemical potential and the external magnetic field. We also discuss the modification of QCD Debye mass of such matter for an arbitrary magnetic field. Analytic expressions for Debye mass are also obtained for both strong and weak field approximation. It is found to exhibit some interesting features depending upon the three different scales, i.e, the quark mass, temperature and the strength of the magnetic field. The various divergences appearing in the quark and gluon free energies are regulated through appropriate counter terms. In weak field approximation, the low temperature behavior of the pressure is found to strongly depend on the magnetic field than that at high temperature. We also discuss the specific problem with one-loop HTLpt associated with the over-counting of certain orders in coupling.