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Phase Transitions in QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

At high temperatures or densities, hadronic matter shows different forms of critical behaviour: colour deconfinement, chiral symmetry restoration, and diquark condensation. I first discuss the conceptual basis of these phenomena and then consider the description of colour deconfinement in terms of symmetry breaking, through colour screening and as percolation transition.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0007209,
  title  = {Phase Transitions in QCD},
  author = {H. Satz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0007209},
  year   = {2009}
}

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19 pages, 14 figures