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The chemical freeze-out curve in heavy-ion collisions is investigated in the context of a quantum chromodynamics (QCD) critical point (CP) search at finite baryon densities. Taking the hadron resonance gas picture at face value, chemical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-08 Artemiy Lysenko , Mark I. Gorenstein , Roman Poberezhniuk , Volodymyr Vovchenko

We develop the model of the critical phenomena of strongly interacting matter at high temperatures and baryon densities. The dual Yang-Mills theory with scalar degrees of freedom (the dilatons) is used. The dilatons are the consequence of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 G. Kozlov

We study the finite term of the holographic entanglement entropy for the charged black hole in AdS(d+2) and other examples of black holes when the spatial region in the boundary theory is given by one or two parallel strips. For one large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-09 Erik Tonni

We present the analytic Lifshitz solutions for a scalar field model minimally coupled with the abelian gauge field in $N$ dimensions. We also consider the presence of cosmological constant $\Lambda$. The Lifshitz parameter $z$ appearing in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-21 D. Momeni , R. Myrzakulov , L. Sebastiani , M. R. Setare

We study the confinement/deconfinement transition of QCD matter for a quark-gluon plasma at finite density using AdS/QCD duality. In order to determine the critical temperature and its dependence on the quark chemical potential, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-01 Nelson R. F. Braga , Octavio C. Junqueira

We summarize our recent results on the phase diagram of QCD with N_f=2+1 quark flavors, as a function of temperature T and quark chemical potential \mu. Using staggered fermions, lattices with temporal extent N_t=4, and the exact RHMC…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-04-14 Philippe de Forcrand , Owe Philipsen

In this review, we provide an up-to-date account of quantitative holographic descriptions of the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy-ion collisions, based on the class of gauge-gravity Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD)…

The critical sector of strong interactions at high temperatures is explored in the frame of two complementary paradigms: Statistical Bootstrap for the hadronic phase and Lattice QCD for the Quark-Gluon partition function. A region of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. G. Antoniou , F. K. Diakonos , A. S. Kapoyannis

We investigate the baryon number susceptibilities up to fourth order along different freeze-out lines in a holographic QCD model with the critical end point (CEP), and we propose that the peaked baryon number susceptibilities along the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-15 Zhibin Li , Yidian Chen , Danning Li , Mei Huang

The QCD phase diagram is crucial for understanding strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions, with major implications for cosmology, neutron stars, and heavy-ion collisions. We present a novel holographic QCD model utilizing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-22 Rong-Gen Cai , Song He , Li Li , Hong-An Zeng

At sufficiently high temperature and density, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is expected to undergo a phase transition from the confined phase to the quark-gluon plasma phase. In the Lagrangian lattice formulation the Monte Carlo method works…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 E. B. Gregory , S. Guo , H. Kroger , Xiang-Qian Luo

By use of the potential reconstruction approach we obtain a series of asymptotically AdS (aAdS) black hole solutions in an Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD) system. Basing on the solutions of the system, we reconstruct a semi-analytical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Rong-Gen Cai , Song He , Danning Li

We propose a novel method to locate the QCD critical point by constructing an expansion along contours of constant entropy density. Applying two independent analysis of lattice QCD data at zero baryon chemical potential, we find a critical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-16 Hitansh Shah , Mauricio Hippert , Jorge Noronha , Claudia Ratti , Volodymyr Vovchenko

Many zero temperature transitions, involving the deviation in the value of a $U(1)$ conserved charge from a quantized value, are described by the dilute Bose gas quantum critical point. On such transitions, we study the consequences of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Kedar Damle , Subir Sachdev

Cold dark matter may be a fluid (or plasma) residing in a strongly-interacting hidden sector, rather than a population of weakly-coupled particles. Such a scenario admits a holographic description in terms of a cosmological braneworld…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Sylvain Fichet , Eugenio Megias , Mariano Quiros

Location of critical point and mapping the QCD phase boundary still exists as one of the most interesting and studied problems of heavy-ion physics. A new equation of state (EOS) for a gas of extended baryons and pointlike mesons is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 C. P. Singh , P. K. Srivastava , S. K. Tiwari

We use the linear sigma model with quarks to study the QCD phase diagram from the point of view of chiral symmetry restoration. We compute the leading order effective potential for high and low temperatures and finite quark chemical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-31 Alejandro Ayala , Saul Hernandez-Ortiz , Luis A. Hernandez

We study the thermodynamical properties of black holes when described as gases of indistinguishable punctures with a chemical potential. In this picture, which arises from loop quantum gravity, the black hole microstates are defined by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-08 Olivier Asin , Jibril Ben Achour , Marc Geiller , Karim Noui , Alejandro Perez

We study the phase diagram for two-color QCD in three-dimensional spacetime, as a function of temperature and baryon chemical potential, using the low-energy effective Lagrangian approach. We show one-loop renormalizability at zero…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 Gerald V. Dunne , Shinsuke M. Nishigaki

First-order phase transitions occur through the nucleation of critical bubbles of the stable phase within the metastable phase. Using holography, we present a fully microscopic description of these bubbles in a strongly coupled,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 Carlos Hoyos , David Mateos , Wilke van der Schee , Javier G. Subils