The role of asymptotic freedom for the pseudocritical temperature in magnetized quark matter

Abstract

Motivated by discrepancies observed between lattice QCD simulations and quark models regarding the behavior of the pseudo critical temperature for chiral symmetry restoration as a function of the magnetic field B, we investigate the effects of a running the quark coupling constant G with temperature T and the magnetic field B in the context of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model(NJL). Our point that when asymptotic freedom, an essential feature of QCD and absent in the model, is included through a running of G with T and B results from the NJL model can be brought in qualitative agreement with lattice QCD simulations.