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Quarkyonic Matter and the Revised Phase Diagram of QCD

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-18 v2

Abstract

At high baryon number density, it has been proposed that a new phase of QCD matter controls the physics. This matter is confining but can have densities much larger than ΛQCD3\Lambda^3_{QCD} QCD. Its existence is argued from large Nc approximations, and model computations. It is approximately chirally symmetric.

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@article{arxiv.0907.4489,
  title  = {Quarkyonic Matter and the Revised Phase Diagram of QCD},
  author = {Larry McLerran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.4489},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure - To appear in the conference proceedings for Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennessee