Strongly Interacting Matter at High Energy Density

Abstract

This lecture concerns the properties of strongly interacting matter (which is described by Quantum Chromodynamics) at very high energy density. I review the properties of matter at high temperature, discussing the deconfinement phase transition . At high baryon density and low temperature, large $N_c$ arguments are developed which suggest that high baryonic density matter is a third form of matter, Quarkyonic Matter, that is distinct from confined hadronic matter and deconfined matter. I finally discuss the Color Glass Condensate which controls the high energy limit of QCD, and forms the low x part of a hadron wavefunction. The Glasma is introduced as matter formed by the Color Glass Condensate which eventually thermalizes into a Quark Gluon Plasma.

References in corpus (11)

• The effects of topological charge change in heavy ion collisions: "Event by event P and CP violation"
• Phases of Dense Quarks at Large N_c
• Charge separation induced by P-odd bubbles in QCD matter
• Some Features of the Glasma
• The transition temperature in QCD
• Baryons and the phase diagram for a large number of colors and flavors
• Initial Singularity of the Little Bang
• Expanding color flux tubes and instabilities
• Interplay between Bonding and Magnetism in the Adsorption of NO on Rh Clusters
• Support Vector Machine Classification with Indefinite Kernels
• An analytic study towards instabilities of the glasma

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• Energy spectrum of simply constant chromoelectric flux tubes
• BFKL Pomeron calculus: solution to equations for nucleus-nucleus scattering in the saturation domain