A thermodynamically consistent quasi-particle model without density-dependent infinity of the vacuum zero point energy

In this paper, we generalize the improved quasi-particle model proposed in J. Cao et al., [ Phys. Lett. B {\bf711}, 65 (2012)] from finite temperature and zero chemical potential to the case of finite chemical potential and zero temperature, and calculate the equation of state (EOS) for (2+1) flavor Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at zero temperature and high density. We first calculate the partition function at finite temperature and chemical potential, then go to the limit $T=0$ and obtain the equation of state (EOS) for cold and dense QCD, which is important for the study of neutron stars. Furthermore, we use this EOS to calculate the quark-number density, the energy density, the quark-number susceptibility and the speed of sound at zero temperature and finite chemical potential and compare our results with the corresponding ones in the existing literature

N′-(2-Hy­droxy-4-meth­oxy­benzyl­idene)-4-methyl­benzohydrazide

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C16H16N2O3, contains four independent mol­ecules with different conformations; the dihedral angles between the two benzene rings in the mol­ecules are 39.7 (3), 45.4 (3), 50.6 (3) and 51.6 (3)°. Intramolecular O—H⋯N hydrogen bonds are observed in the molecule. In the crystal, N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol­ecules into two crystallographically independent chains propagating in [010], and each chain is formed by two alternating independent mol­ecules. Weak C—H⋯O inter­actions also occur