The QCD phase diagram: Results and challenges
Abstract
I review the progress made in recent years with functional methods in our understanding of the QCD phase diagram. In particular I discuss a renormalisation group approach to QCD at finite temperature and chemical potential. Results include the location of the confinement-deconfinement phase transition/cross-over and the chiral phase transition/cross-over lines, their nature as well as their interrelation, and thermodynamic observables.
- Publication:
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IX International Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum - QCHS IX
- Pub Date:
- May 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.3574945
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1012.5075
- Bibcode:
- 2011AIPC.1343...75P
- Keywords:
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- quark matter;
- chiral symmetries;
- quark mass;
- quark-gluon plasma;
- 25.75.Nq;
- 11.30.Rd;
- 12.15.Ff;
- 12.38.Mh;
- Quark deconfinement quark-gluon plasma production and phase transitions;
- Chiral symmetries;
- Quark and lepton masses and mixing;
- Quark-gluon plasma;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Lattice;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, 10 figures (pdflatex), plenary talk given at the conference "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum IX", August 30 - September 3, 2010, Madrid, Spain