Phases and properties of quark matter

Abstract

I review recent developments in finite temperature lattice QCD which are useful for the study of heavy-ion collisions. I pay particular attention to studies of the equation of state and the light they throw on conformal symmetry and the large N_c limit, and to the structure of the phase diagram for N_f=2+1.

Plenary talk at Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur, India (8 pages, 5 figures)

References in corpus (19)

• The order of the quantum chromodynamics transition predicted by the standard model of particle physics
• The QCD transition temperature: results with physical masses in the continuum limit
• The QCD Equation of State with almost Physical Quark Masses
• The transition temperature in QCD
• The equation of state in lattice QCD: with physical quark masses towards the continuum limit
• Spectral functions at small energies and the electrical conductivity in hot, quenched lattice QCD
• The chiral critical line of N_f=2+1 QCD at zero and non-zero baryon density
• Charmonium at high temperature in two-flavor QCD
• Renormalized Polyakov loops in many representations
• The Chiral Critical Point in 3-Flavour QCD
• Fluctuations, strangeness and quasi-quarks in heavy-ion collisions from lattice QCD
• A precise determination of T_c in QCD from scaling
• Color Screening and Quark-Quark Interactions in Finite Temperature QCD
• The critical line from imaginary to real baryonic chemical potentials in two-color QCD
• Imaginary chemical potentials and the phase of the fermionic determinant
• Thermodynamics of two-flavor lattice QCD with an improved Wilson quark action at non-zero temperature and density
• Effective potentials, thermodynamics, and twisted mass quarks
• Energy density for chiral lattice fermions with chemical potential
• The Sign Problem via Imaginary Chemical Potential

Cited by in corpus (8)

• On the magnetic equation of state in (2+1)-flavor QCD
• Chiral phase structure of three flavor QCD at vanishing baryon number density
• Stabilizing Hadron Resonance Gas Models against Future Discoveries
• Chiral Symmetry Breaking on the Lattice
• The axial anomaly and the phases of dense QCD
• Strange mass dependence of the tricritical point in the U(3)_L x U(3)_R chiral sigma model
• Exploring QCD phase diagram at vanishing baryon density on the lattice
• Search and study of Quark Gluon Plasma at the CERN-LHC