HIC for FAIR logo Nuclear Physics Colloquium

Institute for Theoretical Physics, Physics Building, Seminar Room PHYS 2.116
Time: Thursday, May 21, 4:30-5:30 pm (s.t.) (plus 10min for discussion)
Contact:
hees@fias.uni-frankfurt.de


From Hadron Resonance Gas to Quark Matter

David Blaschke (University Wroclav and JINR Dubna)

Twenty years ago, a generalized Beth-Uhlenbeck approach for the description of meson dissociation in quark matter was pioneered by Jörg Hüfner and his group in Heidelberg
on the basis of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model.

We shall review a recent development of this approach within the Polyakov-NJL model for the Mott dissociation of mesons and diquarks, the importance of the Levinson theorem being emphasized. A phenomenological model for the generic behaviour of hadronic phase shifts at the Mott transition is presented which allows to describe the transition from a hadron resonance gas to PNJL quark matter through a sequence of Mott transitions.

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