QCD Phase Diagram and the Critical Point

By M. Stephanov. 2005

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The recent progress in understanding the QCD phase diagram and the physics of the QCD critical point is reviewed.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• Strongly correlated quantum fluids: ultracold quantum gases, quantum chromodynamic plasmas and holographic duality (2012, background): “The transition is believed to strengthen as a function of chemical potential, so that there is a critical μ at which the crossover turns into a first order phase transition [206].”
• Recent development of hydrodynamic modeling in heavy-ion collisions (2020, background): “In particular, a reliable hydrodynamic description of the system evolution is crucial for the search for a conjectured QCD critical point and its associated first-order phase transition between QGP and hadron gas at a finite baryon density [16].”
• Mapping the phases of quantum chromodynamics with beam energy scan (2019, background): “y a crossover, the first-order transition would have to begin at a critical point as shown in the sketch of the QCD phase diagram in Fig. 6. Many models of QCD show such a phenomenon (see, e.g., Refs. [33, 34] for a review). The experimental search for the signatures of the QCD critical point and ass”
• Properties of hot and dense matter from relativistic heavy ion collisions (2015, background): “The transition is believed to strengthen as a function of chemical potential, so that there is a critical μ at which the crossover turns into a first order phase transition [62].”
• Search for the QCD critical point with fluctuations of conserved quantities in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC: an overview (2017, methodology): “The QCD-based models, such as NJL, PNJL, PQM, have given many results of the location of the QCD critical point, which are summarized in the reference [44].”
• QCD at finite temperature and chemical potential from Dyson–Schwinger equations (2018, background): “[23] one of the main arguments for the existence of such a critical end-point has been formulated accordingly: (i) we know that there is an analytic cross-over at finite temperature and zero chemical potential; (ii) we believe (from model studies) that the chiral phase-transition along the zero temp”
• A holographic critical point (2010, background): “It is in approximately this region that one might reasonably expect color superconductivity and/or related phenomena to set in: see for example Figure 7 of [28] and Figure 1 of [5].”