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The QCD phase diagram: Results and challenges

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-06-15 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

I review the progress made in recent years with functional methods in our understanding of the QCD phase diagram. In particular I discuss a renormalisation group approach to QCD at finite temperature and chemical potential. Results include the location of the confinement-deconfinement phase transition/cross-over and the chiral phase transition/cross-over lines, their nature as well as their interrelation.

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@article{arxiv.1012.5075,
  title  = {The QCD phase diagram: Results and challenges},
  author = {Jan M. Pawlowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.5075},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

8 pages, 10 figures (pdflatex), plenary talk given at the conference "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum IX", August 30 - September 3, 2010, Madrid, Spain

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