Towards a theoretical description of dense QCD
- The properties of matter at finite baryon densities play an important role for the astrophysics of compact stars as well as for heavy ion collisions or the description of nuclear matter. Because of the sign problem of the quark determinant, lattice QCD cannot be simulated by standard Monte Carlo at finite baryon densities. I review alternative attempts to treat dense QCD with an effective lattice theory derived by analytic strong coupling and hopping expansions, which close to the continuum is valid for heavy quarks only, but shows all qualitative features of nuclear physics emerging from QCD. In particular, the nuclear liquid gas transition and an equation of state for baryons can be calculated directly from QCD. A second effective theory based on strong coupling methods permits studies of the phase diagram in the chiral limit on coarse lattices.
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| Author: | Owe PhilipsenORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-442226 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713703016 |
| ISSN: | 2100-014X |
| Parent Title (German): | EPJ Web of Conferences |
| Publisher: | EDP Sciences |
| Place of publication: | Les Ulis |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2017 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2017/03/22 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2017/06/07 |
| Volume: | 137 |
| Issue: | 03016 |
| Page Number: | 10 |
| Note: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Note: | XIIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 424817462 |
| Institutes: | Physik / Physik |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
