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The thermodynamic properties of high temperature and high density QCD-matter are explored within the Chiral SU(3)-flavor parity-doublet Polyakov-loop quark-hadron mean-field model, CMF. The quark sector of the CMF model is tuned to describe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Anton Motornenko , Jan Steinheimer , Volodymyr Vovchenko , Stefan Schramm , Horst Stoecker

We analyze the phase diagram of QCD with four staggered flavors in the (mu, T) plane using a method recently proposed by us. We explore the region T > 0.7 Tc and mu <1.4 Tc, where Tc is the transition temperature at zero baryon density, and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-11 Vicente Azcoiti , Giuseppe Di Carlo , Angelo Galante , Victor Laliena

We delineate equilibrium phase structure and topological charge distribution of dense two-colour QCD at low temperature by using a lattice simulation with two-flavour Wilson fermions that has a chemical potential $\mu$ and a diquark source…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-02-19 Kei Iida , Etsuko Itou , Tong-Gyu Lee

We present a detailed calculation of the transition temperature in QCD with two light and one heavier (strange) quark mass on lattices with temporal extent N_t =4 and 6. Calculations with improved staggered fermions have been performed for…

A qualitative analysis of the chiral phase transition in QCD at non--zero baryon density is performed. It is assumed that at zero baryonic density, $\rho=0$, the temperature phase transition is of the second order and quark condesate $\eta=…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. L. Ioffe

We present the first results for lattice QCD at finite temperature $T$ and chemical potential $\mu$ with four flavors of Wilson quarks. The calculations are performed using the imaginary chemical potential method at $\kappa=0$, 0.001, 0.15,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 He-Sheng Chen , Xiang-Qian Luo

We determine the continuum limit of the curvature of the pseudocritical line of QCD with $n_f$=2+1 staggered fermions at nonzero temperature and quark density. We perform Monte Carlo simulations at imaginary baryon chemical potentials,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-01-27 Paolo Cea , Leonardo Cosmai , Alessandro Papa

By analyzing the calculated baryon number susceptibility ratios ${\chi_{1}^{B}}/{\chi_{2}^{B}}$ and ${\chi_{3}^{B}}/{\chi_{1}^{B}}$ in two-flavor system via the Dyson-Schwinger equation approach of QCD, we determine the chemical freeze-out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-29 Yi Lu , Muyang Chen , Zhan Bai , Fei Gao , Yu-xin Liu

In the QCD phase diagram, the dependence of the pseudo-critical temperature, $T_{\rm{pc}}$, on the baryon chemical potential, $\mu_B$, is of fundamental interest. The variation of $T_{\rm{pc}}$ with $\mu_B$ is normally captured by $\kappa$,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-16 Antonio Smecca , Gert Aarts , Chris Allton , Ryan Bignell , Benjamin Jäger , Seung-il Nam , Seyong Kim , Jon-Ivar Skullerud , Liang-Kai Wu

Five dimensional black hole solutions that describe the QCD crossover transition seen in $(2+1)$-flavor lattice QCD calculations at zero and nonzero baryon densities are used to obtain predictions for the baryon susceptibility, baryon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-12 Romulo Rougemont , Jorge Noronha , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

A qualitative analysis of the chiral phase transition in QCD with two massless quarks and non-zero baryon density is performed. It is assumed that at zero baryonic density, $\rho=0$, the temperature phase transition is of the second order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. L. Ioffe

We study four flavor QCD at nonzero temperature and density by analytic continuation from an imaginary chemical potential. The explored region is T = 0.95 T_c < T < 3.5 T_c, and the baryochemical potentials range from 0 to approx. 500 MeV.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-09-29 Massimo D'Elia , Maria Paola Lombardo

We investigate the in-medium behavior of mesons at finite temperature and baryon chemical potential within a soft-wall model of AdS/QCD. We use a quartic scalar potential to obtain the correct form of chiral symmetry breaking. At zero quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-02 Sean P. Bartz , Theodore Jacobson

We present recent results on the critical and pseudo-critical temperatures in (2+1)-flavor QCD with a physical strange quark mass and two degenerate light quark masses extrapolated to the chiral limit and tuned to the physical value,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-05-13 Frithjof Karsch

We calculate a resummed equation of state with lattice QCD simulations at imaginary chemical potentials. This work presents a generalization of the scheme introduced in 2102.06660 to the case of non-zero $\mu_S$, focusing on the line of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-06-29 Szabolcs Borsanyi , Zoltan Fodor , Jana N. Guenther , Ruben Kara , Paolo Parotto , Attila Pasztor , Claudia Ratti , Kalman K. Szabo

An efficient way to study the QCD phase diagram at small finite density is to extrapolate thermodynamical observables from imaginary chemical potential. The phase diagram features a crossover line starting from the transition temperature…

Recent lattice QCD calculations strongly indicate that the chiral crossover of QCD at zero baryon chemical potential \mu_B is a remnant of the second-order chiral phase transition. Universal properties of this second-order phase transition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-21 Swagato Mukherjee , Vladimir Skokov

We present a new equation of state for QCD in which the temperature $T$ and the three chemical potentials for baryon number $\mu_B$, electric charge $\mu_Q$ and strangeness $\mu_S$ can be varied independently. This result is based on a…

We study the early Universe trajectory around the QCD transition in lepton-flavor-asymmetric cases with small total lepton asymmetry ($|\ell|\lesssim 10^{-2}$), while allowing large individual lepton asymmetries. For each temperature, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-18 Francesco Di Clemente , Alessandro Drago , Lorenzo Formaggio , Claudia Ratti , Volodymyr Vovchenko , Geetika Yadav

We study the freeze-out parameters in a QCD-assisted effective theory that accurately captures the quantum and in-medium effects of QCD at low energies. Functional renormalization group approach is implemented in our work to incorporate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-31 Jun-xiang Shao , Wei-jie Fu , Yu-xin Liu