Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2010-09-30
Prog.Theor.Phys.Suppl.186:390-403,2010
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
14 pages, 12 figures, Lectures presented at New Frontiers in QCD, YITP, Kyoto; Suppl. Prog. Theor. Phys., in print
Scientific paper
10.1143/PTPS.186.390
This is a brief summary of topics that were presented as lectures within the programme "New Frontiers in QCD 2010" at the Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics in Kyoto. The basic subject is phases and symmetry breaking patterns as they emerge from the approximate chiral symmetry of QCD. Part I focuses on the QCD interface with nuclear physics via chiral effective field theory. This includes nuclear thermodynamics and, in particular, constraints for compressed and hot baryonic matter provided by the density and temperature dependence of the chiral condensate. Part II explores aspects of the QCD phase diagram using a non-local improved version of the Polyakov - Nambu - Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model. A prominent feature of such an approach is the occurence of a dynamical entanglement between chiral and deconfinement crossover transitions. Comparisons with available results from lattice QCD thermodynamics will be made.
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