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We revisit the phase structure and thermodynamics of QCD in the low temperature and high density region, where a strong, first-order phase transition is expected beyond the critical end point. By solving the quark gap equation in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-10 Yi Lu , Fei Gao , Yu-xin Liu

We study the chiral phase transition with 2 + 1 quark flavors in an improved soft-wall AdS/QCD model, which can produce the light meson spectrum and many other low-energy quantities consistent with experiments in the two-flavor case. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-12 Zhen Fang , Yue-Liang Wu , Lin Zhang

We present the renormalized Taylor expansion of the chiral condensate with chemical potential. The relation with the Taylor coefficients of meson susceptibilities and the quark mass dependence of the quark number susceptibilities are…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Sourendu Gupta , R. Ray

We review recent results on the phase structure of QCD and bulk QCD thermodynamics. In particular we discuss how universal critical scaling related to spontaneous breaking of the chiral symmetry manifests itself in recent lattice QCD…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-10-11 Christian Schmidt , Sayantan Sharma

Matter described by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions, may undergo phase transitions when its temperature and the chemical potentials are varied. QCD at finite temperature is studied in the laboratory by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-24 Sourendu Gupta , Xiaofeng Luo , Bedangadas Mohanty , Hans Georg Ritter , Nu Xu

We study the chiral phase transition at finite $T$ and $\mu_B$ within the framework of the SU(3) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model. The QCD critical end point (CEP) and the critical line at finite temperature and baryonic chemical potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Pedro Costa , C. A. de Sousa , M. C. Ruivo , Yu. L. Kalinovsky

We present a new perspective on thermal and quantum phase transitions (QPT) in $(2+1)$-dimensional quantum chromodynamics based on symmetries, topology, and quantum dynamical structure of the baryon ground state in the large $N_c$ limit for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-25 Laith H. Haddad

We show that the Linear Sigma Model with quarks produces an effective description of the QCD phase diagram and of the system's equilibrium distribution properties that deviate from those of the Hadron Resonance Gas Model. The deviation is…

I present the highlights of a recent study of the effective QCD phase diagram on the temperature T and quark chemical potential mu plane, where the strong interactions are modeled using the linear sigma model coupled to quarks. The phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-03 Alejandro Ayala

Charting the phase diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at large density is a challenging task due to the complex action problem in lattice simulations. Through simulations at imaginary baryon chemical potential $\mu_B$ we observe that,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-11-03 Szabolcs Borsányi , Zoltán Fodor , Jana N. Guenther , Piyush Kumar , Paolo Parotto , Attila Pásztor , Chik Him Wong

We investigate the QCD phase diagram of isospin asymmetric matter using the Polyakov loop extended quark meson (PQM) model with vector interaction. The critical point temperature is found to decrease in isospin asymmetric matter and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-10-30 Hiroshi Ueda , Takashi Z. Nakano , Akira Ohnishi , Marco Ruggieri , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi

We propose a method to probe the nature of phase transitions in lattice QCD at finite temperature and density, which is based on the investigation of an effective potential as a function of the average plaquette. We analyze data obtained in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Shinji Ejiri

We present an update on the study of the QCD phase transition with 3 flavors of M\"obius domain wall fermions at zero baryon density. We performed simulations on lattices of size $36^3\times12\times16$ and $24^3\times12\times32$ with a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-01-11 Yu Zhang , Yasumichi Aoki , Shoji Hashimoto , Issaku Kanamori , Takashi Kaneko , Yoshifumi Nakamura

Towards the feasibility study of the electroweak baryogenesis in realistic technicolor scenario, we investigate the phase structure of (2+Nf)-flavor QCD, where the mass of two flavors is fixed to a small value and the others are heavy. For…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-06-11 Shinji Ejiri , Norikazu Yamada

QCD at zero baryon density in the limit of infinite quark mass undergoes a first order deconfinement phase transition at a critical temperature $T_c$ corresponding to the breaking of the global centre symmetry. In the presence of dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-09-20 Christopher Czaban , Owe Philipsen

In heavy-ion collisions, fluctuations of conserved charges are known to be sensitive observables to probe criticality for the QCD phase transition and to locate the position of the putative critical end point (CEP). In this work we seek to…

Dense QCD matter can feature a moat regime, where the static energy of mesons is minimal at nonzero momentum. Valuable insights into this regime can be gained using low-energy models. This, however, requires a careful assessment of model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Fabian Rennecke , Shi Yin

We investigate the phase structure of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) in the vacuum as a function of quark flavor number $N_f$ within the chiral limit. By self-consistently solving the coupled DSEs for the quark and gluon propagators in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-19 Yi-huai Chen , Yi Lu , Zhi-wei Wang , Yu-xin Liu , Fei Gao

The QCD phase diagram at finite temperature and density has attracted considerable interest over many decades now, not least because of its relevance for a better understanding of heavy-ion collision experiments. Models provide some insight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Paul Springer , Jens Braun , Stefan Rechenberger , Fabian Rennecke

Introduction of a nonzero isospin chemical potential in QCD leads to the emergence of a pion condensed phase at sufficiently large $\mu_I$, bounded by a second order transition line. At zero temperature the pion condensate appears at $\mu_I…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-08 Bastian B. Brandt , Volodymyr Chelnokov , Francesca Cuteri , Gergely Endrődi