Hot and dense QCD - from Baryons to the phase diagram of QCD

Particle Physics Theory seminar

Hot and dense QCD - from Baryons to the phase diagram of QCD

  • Event time: 2:00pm
  • Event date: 20th May 2015
  • Speaker: Benjamin Jaeger (Swansea University)
  • Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305,

Event details

Baryons provide a tool to test symmetries in the presence of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). We present a study of baryonic correlations functions to address the restoration of chiral symmetry. We find evidence that the nucleon and its parity partner become mass-degenerate once the temperature is sufficiently large. Simulations of QCD in a hot and dense environment lead to a severe sign problem, for which standard Monte Carlo methods are not applicable. We present results for QCD in the limit of heavy quarks and show that​ ​the Complex Langevin method provides an alternative to determine the phase diagram of QCD.

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