3 papers
nucl-th2026
How strange: Phase diagrams with 3 critical points
Mateus Reinke Pelicer, Nikolas Cruz Camacho, Rajesh Kumar +2
We show that the Chiral Mean-Field model (CMF) can produce a phase diagram with three critical points: the nuclear liquid-gas transition, quark deconfinement, and a strangeness dri…
nucl-th2025
Symmetry Energy Expansion with Strange Dense Matter
Yumu Yang, Nikolas Cruz Camacho, Mauricio Hippert +1
The quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram at large densities and low temperatures can be probed using both neutron stars and low-energy heavy-ion collisions. Heavy-ion collisi…
nucl-th2024
Modern nuclear and astrophysical constraints of dense matter in a renormalized chiral approach
Rajesh Kumar, Yuhan Wang, Nikolas Cruz Camacho +3
We explore the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram's complexities, including quark deconfinement transitions, liquid-gas phase changes, and critical points, using the chiral…