| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 137, 2017
XIIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum
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| Article Number | 03016 | |
| Number of page(s) | 10 | |
| Section | Section A: Vacuum Structure and Confinement | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713703016 | |
| Published online | 22 March 2017 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713703016
Towards a theoretical description of dense QCD
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
a e-mail: philipsen@th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de
Published online: 22 March 2017
The properties of matter at finite baryon densities play an important role for the astrophysics of compact stars as well as for heavy ion collisions or the description of nuclear matter. Because of the sign problem of the quark determinant, lattice QCD cannot be simulated by standard Monte Carlo at finite baryon densities. I review alternative attempts to treat dense QCD with an effective lattice theory derived by analytic strong coupling and hopping expansions, which close to the continuum is valid for heavy quarks only, but shows all qualitative features of nuclear physics emerging from QCD. In particular, the nuclear liquid gas transition and an equation of state for baryons can be calculated directly from QCD. A second effective theory based on strong coupling methods permits studies of the phase diagram in the chiral limit on coarse lattices.
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