A Study on Quark-Gluon Plasma Equation of State Using Generalized Uncertainty Principle

Nabil M. El Naggar, Lotfy I. Abou-Salem, Ibrahim A. Elmashad, Ahmed Farag Ali

Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha, Egypt.

DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2013.44A003                

Abstract

The effects of Generalized Uncertainty Principle, which has been predicted by various theories of quantum gravity replacing the Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle near the Planck scale, on the thermodynamics of ideal Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) consisting of two and three flavors are included. There is a clear effect on thermodynamical quantities like the pressure and the energy density which means that a different effect from quantum gravity may be used in enhancement the theoretical results for Quark-Gluon Plasma state of matter. This effect looks like the technique used in lattice QCD simulation. We determine the value of the bag parameter from fitting lattice QCD data and a physical interpretation to the negative bag pressure is introduced.

Keywords

Generalized Uncertainty Principle

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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