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The phase diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) remains a central topic in high-energy physics. At high temperature and low baryochemical potential, the chiral transition is experimentally observed and theoretically explored to be a…

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We consider the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) Kondo effect for a single heavy quark in quark matter composed of light quarks with chiral symmetry breaking. Introducing several spinor structures in QCD Kondo condensates, i.e.,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Shigehiro Yasui , Daiki Suenaga , Kei Suzuki

The chiral phase transition at finite temperature T and/or chemical potential $\mu$ is studied using the QCD-like theory with a variational approach. The ``QCD-like theory'' means the improved ladder approximation with an infrared cutoff in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Kiriyama , M. Maruyama , F. Takagi

In nucleus-nucleus collisions at relativistic energies a new kind of matter is created, the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). The phase diagram of such matter and the chemical freeze-out points will be presented in connection to the pseudo-critical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-27 Peter Braun-Munzinger , Anar Rustamov , Johanna Stachel

We study lattice QCD in the limit that the quark mass and chemical potential are simultaneously made large, resulting in a controllable density of quarks which do not move; this is similar in spirit to the quenched approximation for zero…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Blum , J. E. Hetrick , D. Toussaint

In this conference proceeding, I discuss in detail the deconfinement to quark matter that takes place at large densities and/or temperatures. The first-order phase transition that is assumed to appear beyond a critical point gives rise to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-26 Veronica Dexheimer

The QCD axial anomaly, by coupling the chiral condensate and BCS pairing fields of quarks in dense matter, leads to a new critical point in the QCD phase diagram \cite{HTYB,chiral2}, which at sufficiently low temperature should terminate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gordon Baym , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Motoi Tachibana , Naoki Yamamoto

A new phase of dense QCD proposed in the limit of large number of colors, Quarkyonic Phase, is discussed in chiral approaches. The interplay between chiral symmetry breaking and confinement together with the $N_c$ dependence of the phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-02 Chihiro Sasaki

In a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), the fundamental building blocks of matter, quarks and gluons, are under extreme conditions of temperature and density. A QGP could exist in the early stages of the Universe, and in various objects and events…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-02-06 STAR Collaboration

I first sketch recent developments concerning the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter as a function of temperature and baryon density, obtained using a model for two-flavor QCD in which the interaction between quarks is modelled on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Krishna Rajagopal

The features of hot and dense gas of quarks which are considered as the quasi-particles of the model Hamiltonian with four-fermion interaction are studied. Being adapted to the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model this approach allows us to accommodate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 S. V. Molodtsov , G. M. Zinovjev

The BEC-BCS crossover in QCD at finite baryon and isospin chemical potentials is investigated in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. The diquark condensation in two color QCD and the pion condensation in real QCD would undergo a BEC-BCS…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gaofeng Sun , Lianyi He , Pengfei Zhuang

A detailed analysis of collective modes that couple to either vector or axial color currents in color-flavor locked phase of color superconducting dense quark matter at finite temperature is presented. Among the realm of collective modes,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 V. P. Gusynin , I. A. Shovkovy

The large magnetic fields of neutron stars and produced in heavy-ion collisions motivate investigation into the response of strongly-interacting matter to extreme magnetic forces beyond just theoretical interest. Furthermore, the varying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-19 Geraint W. Evans

We investigate the properties of QCD axion at low temperature and moderate density in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with instanton induced interactions by simultaneously considering the scalar and pseudo-scalar condensates in both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 Zhao Zhang , Wenhao Zhao

We conjecture that the confinement- deconfinement phase transition in QCD at large number of colors N and N_f\ll N at T\neq 0 and \mu\neq 0 is triggered by the drastic change in \theta behavior. The conjecture is motivated by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

We review what is different and what is similar in a color superconductor as compared to an ordinary BCS superconductor. The parametric dependence of the zero-temperature gap on the coupling constant differs in QCD from that in BCS theory.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 D. H. Rischke , R. D. Pisarski

Recent results on the QCD phase diagram are reviewed. We begin with a detailed introduction of lattice techniques. Then results at vanishing chemical potential are presented. The order of the phase transition, the transition temperature and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-25 Z. Fodor , S. D. Katz

The self-consistent mean field approximation of two-flavor NJL model with introducing a free parameter $\alpha$ to reflect the competition between "direct" channel and the "exchange" channel, is employed to study QCD phase structure at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-07 Zu-Qing Wu , Jia-Lun Ping , Hong-Shi Zong

The present article is the followup of {\color{blue} Eur.\ Phys.\ J.\ C {\bf 79}, 761 (2019)}, where we have studied the energy-loss of the heavy quarks traversing through the isotropic collisional hot QCD medium. Since, the exploration of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-24 M. Yousuf Jamal , Bedangadas Mohanty