Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 155, 177-190 (2008)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2008-00600-8
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2008-00600-8
Plasmons, plasminos and Landau damping in a quasiparticle model of the quark-gluon plasma
Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, PF 510119, 01314 Dresden, Germany Institut für Theoretische Physik, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany
Corresponding author: r.schulze@fzd.de
A phenomenological quasiparticle model is surveyed for 2+1 quark flavors and compared with recent lattice QCD results. Emphasis is devoted to the effects of plasmons, plasminos and Landau damping. It is shown that thermodynamic bulk quantities, known at zero chemical potential, can uniquely be mapped towards nonzero chemical potential by means of a thermodynamic consistency condition and a stationarity condition.
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