Phase structure of the on-shell parametrized 2+1 flavor Polyakov quark-meson model

TL;DR

This paper develops a consistent on-shell renormalized 2+1 flavor Polyakov quark-meson model, incorporating quark one-loop corrections and Polyakov-loop potentials, to study QCD phase transitions and thermodynamics, comparing results with lattice QCD data.

Contribution

It introduces a consistent on-shell renormalization scheme for the Polyakov quark-meson model, relating parameters across schemes and including quark loop effects and back-reactions.

Findings

The model's phase diagram aligns well with lattice QCD results.

Quark one-loop corrections significantly affect the chiral order parameter.

Back-reaction effects modify thermodynamic quantities.

Abstract

Augmenting the improved chiral effective potential of the on-shell renormalized 2+1 flavour quark-meson (RQM) model with the Polyakov-loop potential that accounts for the deconfinement transition,~we get the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) like framework of the renormalized Polyakov quark-meson (RPQM) model.~When the divergent quark one-loop vacuum term is included in the effective potential of the quark-meson (QM) model,~its tree level parameters or the parameters fixed by the use of meson curvature masses,~become inconsistent as the curvature masses involve the self energy evaluations at zero momentum.~Using the modified minimal subtraction method,~the consistent chiral effective potential for the RQM model has been calculated after relating the counterterms in the on-shell (OS) scheme to those in the $\overline{\text{MS}}$ scheme and finding the relations between the renormalized parameters of both the schemes where the physical (pole) masses of the $\pi, K, \eta$ and $\eta^{\prime}$ pseudo-scalar mesons and the scalar $\sigma$ meson,~the pion and kaon decay constants,~have been put into the relation of the running couplings and mass parameter.~Using the RPQM model and the PQM Model with different forms for the Polyakov-loop potentials in the presence or the absence of the quark back-reaction,~we have computed and compared the effect of the consistent quark one-loop correction and the quark back-reaction on the scaled chiral order parameter,~the QCD phase diagrams and the different thermodynamic quantities.~The results have been compared with the 2+1 flavor lattice QCD data from the Wuppertal-Budapest collaboration \{JHEP 09,73(2010); PLB 730,99(2014)\} and the HotQCD collaboration \{PRD 90,094503(2014)\}.