The QCD phase diagram: Results and challenges

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 transiti...

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Main Authors: Pawlowski, Jan M., ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI, Planckstr. 1, 64291 Darmstadt
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
CHIRAL SYMMETRY
CHIRALITY
CONFINEMENT
DIAGRAMS
FERMIONS
FIELD THEORIES
INFORMATION
MASS
MATTER
PARTICLE PROPERTIES
PHASE DIAGRAMS
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
QUARK MATTER
QUARKS
RENORMALIZATION
SYMMETRY
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0094-243X
1551-7616
DOI:10.1063/1.3574945