Impact of eight quark interactions on chiral phase transitions II: Thermal effects

Abstract

In this talk attention is drawn to thermal properties due to the addition of eight quark interactions in the standard $SU(3)\times SU(3)$ chiral Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model (NJL) with 't Hooft interaction (NJLH). The schematic SU(3) flavor limit with massless current quarks as well as the realistic case $m_u=m_d\ne m_s$ are discussed.

Comments: 3 pages, prepared for XIII International Conference on Selected Problems of Modern Theoretical Physics (SPMTP08), Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Dubna, Russia, June 23-27, 2008