κ-DEFORMED STATISTICS AND THE FORMATION OF A QUARK-GLUON PLASMA

The effect of the non-extensive form of statistical mechanics proposed by Tsallis on the formation of a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) has been recently investigated in Ref. 1. The results show that for small deviations (≈ 10%) from Boltzmann–Gibbs (BG) statistics in the QGP phase, the critical temperature for the formation of a QGP does not change substantially for a large variation of the chemical potential. In the present paper we use the extensive κ-deformed statistical mechanics constructed by Kaniadakis to represent the constituents of the QGP and compare the results with Ref. 1.