| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conf.
Volume 290, 2023
European Nuclear Physics Conference (EuNPC 2022)
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| Article Number | 05002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | P5 Heavy Ion Collisions and QCD Phases | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202329005002 | |
| Published online | 08 December 2023 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202329005002
Constraining the QCD phase diagram
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Published online: 8 December 2023
Lattice QCD and functional methods are making significant progress in constraining the QCD phase diagram. As an important milestone, the chiral phase transition with massless u, d-quarks at zero density is now understood to be of second order for all strange quark masses, and a smooth crossover as soon as mu,d, ≠ 0. Together with information on fluctuations and refined reweighted simulations, this bounds a possible critical point to be at µB/T ≲3. On the other hand, an approximately chiral-spin symmetric temperature window has been discovered above the chiral crossover, Tch<T ≳3Tch, with distinct correlator multiplet patterns and a pion spectral function suggesting resonance-like degrees of freedom, which dissolve graduallly with temperature.
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