3 papers
hep-ph2025
String-based model with Hagedorn temperature of MeV describes the spectrum of mesons and glueballs
MichaÅ Marczenko, GyÅzÅ Kovács, Larry McLerran +1
We consider the thermodynamics of a color-confined phase of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and pure gauge theory within a string-inspired model, corresponding to a physical spatial d…
hep-ph2025
Challenges in locating the QCD critical point via constant entropy density contours
MichaÅ Marczenko, MichaÅ SzymaÅski, GyÅzÅ Kovács
A new method was proposed recently to investigate the location of the putative critical point of strongly interacting matter, governed by quantum chromodynamics. By approximating c…
hep-ph2025
Anomalous couplings and the Columbia plot
Francesco Giacosa, GyÅzÅ Kovács, Péter Kovács +2
When the quark masses are lighter than those in QCD, the standard lore is that a chiral transition of first order must emerge for three, light flavors. Recently, however, numerical…