{ "id": "1310.2234", "version": "v3", "published": "2013-10-08T19:37:12.000Z", "updated": "2014-04-03T14:00:43.000Z", "title": "New critical point for QCD in a magnetic field", "authors": [ "Thomas D. Cohen", "Naoki Yamamoto" ], "comment": "5 pages, 3 figures; v3: published version", "journal": "Phys.Rev.D89:054029,2014", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.89.054029", "categories": [ "hep-ph", "hep-lat", "nucl-th" ], "abstract": "We provide a general argument for the possible existence of a new critical point associated with a deconfinement phase transition in QCD at finite temperature $T$ and in a magnetic field $B$ with zero chemical potential. This is the first example of a QCD critical point in a physical external parameter region that can be studied using lattice QCD simulations without suffering from a sign problem.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "2014-04-03T14:00:43.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "12.38.-t", "21.65.Qr", "25.75.Nq" ], "keywords": [ "magnetic field", "deconfinement phase transition", "physical external parameter region", "lattice qcd simulations", "general argument" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Physical Review D", "year": 2014, "month": "Mar", "volume": 89, "number": 5, "pages": "054029" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 5, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 1257619, "adsabs": "2014PhRvD..89e4029C" } } }