The QCD Phase Diagram: Expectations and Challenges
Nuclear Experiment
2014-11-20 v1
Abstract
A survey is given of recent QCD theory advances concerning the phase diagram, in particular the indications for a critical point and adjacent first order phase transition at high baryo-chemical potential, and the new ideas concerning a further phase at high , the quarkyonic matter phase. The latter state might finally explain the hadro-chemical equilibrium freeze-out points from A+A collisions at energies below SPS energy. We review several event-by-event fluctuation signals that promise to shed a light on the existence of a critical point, and we discuss its possible reflection in recent lattice QCD calculations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0909.0601,
title = {The QCD Phase Diagram: Expectations and Challenges},
author = {Reinhard Stock},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.0601},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
25 pages, 21 figures, 5th International Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement - CPOD 2009