Plasmons, plasminos and Landau damping in a quasiparticle model of the quark-gluon plasma

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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.