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HIC for FAIR logo Nuclear Physics Colloquium

Venue: Otto-Stern-Zentrum,  Ruth-Moufang-Straße 2, Lecture Hall H6
Time: Thursday, December 21, 4:30pm (s.t.)

Contact: hees@fias.uni-frankfurt.de


The phase diagram of QCD: a chiral matrix model, and a pseudo-Lifshitz point

Robert Pisarski (BNL)

I sketch an effective theory for QCD at nonzero temperature and quark density, by marrying a linear $\sigma$ model (for the chiral transition) with a matrix model (for deconfinement). I then discuss phases of cold, dense quarks, including chiral spirals in a quarkyonic phase, and how this might connect to a hadronic phase through a pseudo-Lifshitz point"


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