Fluctuations and the QCD phase diagram
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-05-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
In this contribution the role of quantum fluctuations for the QCD phase diagram is discussed. This concerns in particular the importance of the matter back-reaction to the gluonic sector. The impact of these fluctuations on the location of the confinement/deconfinement and the chiral transition lines as well as their interrelation are investigated. Consequences of our findings for the size of a possible quarkyonic phase and location of a critical endpoint in the phase diagram are drawn.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1102.2772,
title = {Fluctuations and the QCD phase diagram},
author = {Bernd-Jochen Schaefer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.2772},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Physics of Atomic Nuclei