Happy Island
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2017-08-23 v1
Abstract
I discuss the phase diagram for QCD in the baryon chemical potential and temperature plane. I argue that there is a new phase of matter different from the deconfined Quark Gluon Plasma: Quarkyonic Matter. Quarkyonic Matter is confined and exists at densities parametrically large compared to the QCD scale, when the number of quark colors, is large. I motivate the possibility that Quarkyonic Matter is in an inhomogeneous phase, and is surrounded by lines of phase transitions, making a Happy Island in the -T plane. I conjecture about the geography of Happy Island.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1105.4103,
title = {Happy Island},
author = {Larry McLerran},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.4103},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Invited talk presented at Symposium on Nuclear Physics in GOA, India, Nov. 28-Dec. 2, 2010