5 papers
Color superconductivity in dense quark matter
M. Alford
I discuss recent developments in our understanding of the color-superconducting phases of cold, dense quark matter. I describe the phase diagram as a function of density and the st…
How to Find the QCD Critical Point
Krishna Rajagopal
The event-by-event fluctuations in heavy ion collisions carry information about the thermodynamic properties of the hadronic system at the time of freeze-out. By studying these flu…
The QCD Tricritical Point: Beyond Monotony in Heavy Ion Physics
Krishna Rajagopal
I first sketch recent developments concerning the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter as a function of temperature and baryon density, obtained using a model for two-flavo…
Disorienting the Chiral Condensate at the QCD Phase Transition
Krishna Rajagopal
I sketch how long wavelength modes of the pion field can be amplified during the QCD phase transition. If nature had been kinder, and had made the pion mass significantly less than…
Collision Induced Decays of Electroweak Solitons: Fermion Number Violation with Two Initial Particles
Krishna Rajagopal
This paper presents work done in collaboration with E. Farhi, J. Goldstone, and A. Lue which is described in full in Ref. [1]. We consider a variant of the standard electroweak the…