27–29 Jul 2022
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  1. Claudia Ratti
    27/07/2022, 09:00
  2. Gergely Endrodi
    27/07/2022, 09:45
    Oral presentation

    The thermodynamics of strongly interacting matter in extreme conditions can be investigated via lattice QCD simulations. In this talk, I will give an overview of recent developments in this field, focusing on the impact of temperature, background electromagnetic fields as well as an isospin asymmetry between the light quark chemical potentials. Selected applications of the results for...

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  3. Jon-Ivar Skullerud
    27/07/2022, 11:00
    Oral presentation

    We present the most recent results from the FASTSUM collaboration for hadron properties at high temperature from anisotropic lattice QCD. This includes the temperature dependence of the light and charmed meson and baryon spectrum, as well as properties of heavy quarkonia.

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  4. Manuel Naviglio
    27/07/2022, 11:25
    Oral presentation

    In this talk we present our study of the electromagnetic conductivity in dense quark-gluon plasma obtained within lattice simulations with Nf = 2 + 1 dynamical quarks. We employ stout improved rooted staggered quarks at the physical point and the tree-level Symanzik improved gauge action. The simulations are performed at imaginary chemical potential. To reconstruct electromagnetic conductivity...

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  5. Viljami Leino (Technical University Munich)
    27/07/2022, 11:50
    Oral presentation

    The heavy quark diffusion coefficient is encoded in the spectral functions of the chromo-electric and the chromo-magnetic correlators, of which the latter describes the T/M contribution. We study these correlators in the deconfined phase of SU(3) gauge theory on the lattice using the gradient flow. We perform both continuum and zero flow time limits to extract the heavy quark diffusion...

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  6. Rasmus Larsen (University of Stavanger)
    27/07/2022, 14:15
    Oral presentation

    We present results for the analysis of the energy and spectral width of the quark-antiQuark potential obtained from wilson line correlators at finite temperature using 2+1 flavor HISQ configurations ms/ml=20. We extract the energy and spectral width using 4 different methods: Zero temperature subtraction, Pade fit, Bayesian Reconstruction and HTL motivated fit. We compare the results and...

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  7. Adeilton Dean Marques Valois (Bielefeld University)
    27/07/2022, 14:40
    Oral presentation

    The magnetic fields generated in non-central heavy-ion collisions are among the strongest fields produced in the universe, reaching magnitudes comparable to the scale of strong interactions. Backed by model simulations, the resulting field is expected to be spatially modulated, deviating significantly from the commonly considered uniform profile. In this work, we present the next step to...

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  8. Ms Isabella Danhoni
    27/07/2022, 15:05
    Oral presentation

    Transport coefficients, such as viscosity, can be calculated theoretically in weakly coupled quantum field theory, and present interesting information about hydrodynamic models of heavy-ion collisions. We present the results for shear viscosity calculations at leading-log in QCD in a regime of high baryon density, where the chemical potentials are greater than the temperature, which is a very...

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  9. Chowdhury Aminul Islam
    27/07/2022, 16:00
    Oral presentation

    We study the two-flavour non-local Nambu\textemdash Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model in the presence of a magnetic field and explore the chiral crossover in presence of a non-local form of the 't Hooft determinant term [1]. Its coupling is governed by a dimensionless parameter $c$. This term is responsible for the explicit breaking of $U(1)_A$ symmetry. We have attempted a systematic analysis of the...

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  10. Laura Tolos
    27/07/2022, 16:25
    Oral presentation

    We present the properties of open heavy mesons in hot mesonic matter based on a self-consistent theoretical approach that takes into account chiral and heavy-quark spin-flavour symmetries. The heavy-light meson-meson unitarized scattering amplitudes in coupled channels incorporate thermal corrections as well as the dressing of the heavy mesons with the self-energies [1, 2]. As a result, the...

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  11. Prof. Aleksi Vuorinen (University of Helsinki)
    28/07/2022, 09:00
    Oral presentation

    I will describe recent advances in the study of dense quark matter, expected to be present inside the cores of massive neutron stars. I will concentrate on two somewhat differing topics: first, on perturbative studies of the bulk thermodynamic properties of unpaired quark matter, and second, on the application of these results to the model-independent determination of the neutron-star-matter...

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  12. Denes Sexty
    28/07/2022, 09:45
    Oral presentation

    Lattice simulations of non-zero density QCD introduce the so-called sign problem, which invalidates importance sampling methods. We use the Complex Langevin equation (CLE) to circumvent the sign problem. Recent results regarding the phase diagram and thermodynamics of QCD using Complex Langevin simulations will be reviewed. Theoretical developments about 'boundary terms' are also discussed: in...

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  13. Mr Savvas Pitsinigkos (University of Southampton)
    28/07/2022, 11:00

    Cold and dense matter can be explored in a systematic way both in the high-density (perturbative
    QCD) and low-density (Chiral EFT) regime. However, the path connecting them is yet to be discov-
    ered. As a result, these descriptions are usually extrapolated into the intermediate density regime
    and then connected at some transition point. In this work I will present a model that has...

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  14. Felix P. G. Ziegler (The University of Edinburgh)
    28/07/2022, 11:25
    Oral presentation

    We present results on the phase diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) with two light quark flavours at finite chemical potential from first principle lattice simulations. To circumvent the sign problem we use the complex Langevin method. The pion mass is of approximately 480 MeV. We report on the pressure, energy and entropy equations of state. A particular emphasis is put on the “cold”...

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  15. Dr Márcio Ferreira (University of Coimbra)
    28/07/2022, 11:50
    Oral presentation

    The possible existence of hybrid stars is studied using several multi-quark interaction channels. The hadronic phase consists of an EOS with presently accepted nuclear matter properties and the quark model constrained by the vacuum properties of several light mesons. The dependence of several NS properties on the different quark interactions is analyzed. We show that the present constraints...

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  16. Prof. Aleksi Vuorinen (University of Helsinki), Claudia Ratti, Dr Laura Tolos
    28/07/2022, 12:15
  17. Matti Jarvinen
    28/07/2022, 14:15
    Oral presentation

    The gauge/gravity duality, combined with information from lattice QCD, nuclear theory, and perturbative QCD, can be used to constrain the equation of state of hot and dense QCD. I discuss an approach based on the V-QCD model, which predicts a strongly first order nuclear to quark matter phase transition with a critical endpoint. By using this model in state-of-the-art simulations of neutron...

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  18. Loïc Fernandez (Laboratoire Charles Coulomb)
    28/07/2022, 14:40
    Oral presentation

    By identifying {\em massive} renormalization group (RG) properties within the hard thermal loop (HTL)
    formalism, we resum to all orders $\alpha_S^p, p\ge 3$ the leading and next-to-leading logarithmic
    soft mode $m_E\sim \alpha_S^{1/2} \mu_B$ contributions to the cold and dense QCD pressure
    at high baryon chemical potential $\mu_B$.
    We obtain noticeably reduced residual scale dependence...

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  19. Violetta Sagun (University of Coimbra)
    28/07/2022, 15:05
    Oral presentation

    We study the impact of asymmetric fermionic and bosonic dark matter on neutron star properties,
    including tidal deformability, maximum masses, radii, etc. The conditions at which dark matter
    particles tend to condensate in the core of the star or create an extended halo are presented. We
    show that dark matter condensed in a core leads to a decrease of the total gravitational mass
    and tidal...

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  20. Yuki Fujimoto (University of Washington)
    28/07/2022, 16:00
    Oral presentation

    At extremely high densities, QCD predicts the possible liberation of quark degrees of freedom and the formation of quark matter. The cores of neutron stars (NS) may accommodate such high-density matter. Whether the quark matter exists inside NSs is still an open question. If the quark matter exists, then there should be the imprint of the hadron-to-quark phase transition in the equation of...

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  21. Oleksii Ivanytskyi (University of Wroclaw)
    28/07/2022, 16:25
    Oral presentation

    We outline the role that an early deconfinement phase transition from normal nuclear matter to a color superconducting quark-gluon plasma phase plays for the phenomenology of supernova explosions and binary neutron star mergers. To this end we extend the compact star equation of state (EoS) from vanishing to moderately high temperatures that become accessible in the CBM experiment at FAIR. We...

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  22. Edwan Préau
    28/07/2022, 16:50
    Oral presentation

    The holographic method is one of the only ways of getting analytic insight into most strongly coupled systems. When numerical methods are not available, it is even the best technique we know of to tackle these problems. In particular, lattice QCD is unable to provide results at finite baryon density, which is why a lot of effort is put into the study of holographic QCD at high density....

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  23. Michael Strickland (Kent State University)
    29/07/2022, 09:00
    Oral presentation

    Using the potential non-relativistic quantum chromodynamics (pNRQCD) framework we derive a Lindblad equation for the evolution of the heavy-quarkonium reduced density matrix that is accurate to next-to-leading order (NLO) in the ratio of the binding energy of the state and the temperature. The resulting NLO Lindblad equation can be used to more reliably describe heavy-quarkonium evolution in...

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  24. Robert Pisarski (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    29/07/2022, 09:45
    Oral presentation

    I discuss three topics in QCD at nonzero temperature and density. First, how confingurations with fractional topological charge $1/N$ in a $SU(N)$ gauge theory may contribute at low temperature. Second, how the Polyakov loop, which appears to be an artifact of Euclidean space-time, can be naturally introduced in the Hamiltonian form, by introducing new states with test charges. Lastly, I...

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  25. Bruno Sebastian Scheihing Hitschfeld (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    29/07/2022, 11:00
    Oral presentation

    Suppression of open heavy flavors and quarkonia in heavy-ion collisions is among the most informative probes of the quark-gluon plasma. Interpreting the full wealth of data obtained from the collision events requires a precise understanding of the evolution of heavy quarks and quarkonia as they propagate through the nearly thermal and strongly coupled plasma. In particular, a systematic...

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  26. Florian Lindenbauer (TU Wien)
    29/07/2022, 11:25
    Oral presentation

    We study jet momentum broadening in heavy-ion collisions at anisotropic initial stages with focus on the jet quenching parameter $\hat q$, which we extract using effective kinetic theory. We obtain its non-equilibrium properties during the bottom-up thermalization scenario in a Bjorken-expanding plasma with non-thermal anisotropic initial conditions.
    By studying the time-dependence of the...

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  27. Rene Bellwied (University of Houston (US))
    29/07/2022, 11:50

    I will discuss the potential connection between the entanglement entropy of the initial state and thermodynamic entropy of the final state in relativistic particle collisions, from proton-proton to heavy ion collisions. I will show that simple fragmentation models that ignore quantum mechanical effects break down in describing particle production and that evidence for the non-universality of...

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  28. Markus Leuthner
    29/07/2022, 12:15
    Oral presentation

    According to the Color Glass Condensate effective theory, the early stages of heavy ion collisions
    are described by a quasi-classical state called Glasma, whose dynamics are governed by the Yang-
    Mills (YM) equations. Extending prior work [1], we solve the YM equations analytically in the
    weak-field limit, which reduces the field strength tensor components to three-dimensional inte-
    grals....

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  29. Xiaojian Du (Bielefeld University)
    29/07/2022, 12:40

    Equilibration of quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions
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    25m
    Oral presentation Session
    Speaker
    Dr Xiaojian Du (Bielefeld University)
    Description

    Non-equilibrium systems are omnipresent in nature. QCD plasma out of equilibrium and its equilibration are of particular interest given that the relativistic heavy-ion collisions (HICs) produce the non-equilibrium quark-gluon...

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  30. Johannes Hamre Isaksen (University of Bergen)
    29/07/2022, 14:30
    Oral presentation

    We revisit the picture of jets propagating in the quark-gluon plasma. In addition to vacuum radiation, related to the high initial virtuality of a jet, jet particles scatter on the medium constituents resulting in induced emissions. Analytical approaches to resumming these interactions have traditionally dealt separately with multiple, soft [1,2], or rare, hard scatterings [3,4]. A full...

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  31. Guillaume Taillepied (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))
    29/07/2022, 14:55
    Oral presentation

    Heavy quarks are efficient probes of different physics aspects related to heavy-ion collisions (HIC), as they experience the full evolution of the system. Quarkonia notably provide a direct probe of the deconfinement of nuclear matter. Recently, the production of J/$\psi$ via (re)generation within the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) or at the phase boundary has been identified as an important...

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  32. Sylwia Bazak (Jan Kochanowski University)
    29/07/2022, 15:20
    Oral presentation

    A system of gluon fields generated at the earliest phase of relativistic heavy-ion
    collisions can be described in terms of classical fields. Numerical simulations show that the sys-
    tem is unstable but a character of the instability is not well understood. With the intention to
    systematically study the problem, we analyze a stability of classical chromomagnetic and chromo-
    electric fields...

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  33. Mr Ubaid Tantary (Kent State University, Kent Ohio, USA)
    Poster presentation

    The free energy density of ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in four space-time
    dimensions is derived through second order in the 't Hooft coupling $\lambda$
    at finite temperature using effective-field theory methods. The contributions to the free energy
    density at this order come from the hard scale $T$ and the soft scale $\sqrt{\lambda} T$.
    The effects of the scale $T$ are...

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  34. Markus Leuthner
    Poster presentation

    According to the Color Glass Condensate effective theory, the early stages of heavy ion collisions are described by a quasi-classical state called Glasma, whose dynamics are governed by the Yang-Mills (YM) equations. Extending prior work [1], we solve the YM equations analytically in the weak-field limit, which reduces the field strength tensor components to three-dimensional integrals. These...

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  35. Markus Leuthner
    Oral presentation

    According to the Color Glass Condensate effective theory, the early stages of heavy ion collisions
    are described by a quasi-classical state called Glasma, whose dynamics are governed by the Yang-
    Mills (YM) equations. Extending prior work [1], we solve the YM equations analytically in the
    weak-field limit, which reduces the field strength tensor components to three-dimensional inte-
    grals....

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  36. Bruno Sebastian Scheihing Hitschfeld (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    Poster presentation

    In this talk we demonstrate that the early stages of the bottom-up thermalization scenario [1] are well described by the adiabatic hydrodynamization framework. All of the qualitative features exhibited in QCD effective kinetic theory (EKT) simulations at weak coupling [2] are captured by the emergence of an effective low-energy instantaneous ground state for the 1-particle gluon distribution...

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  37. Eduardo Garnacho Velasco
    Poster presentation

    We study anomalous transport phenomena with lattice QCD simulations using improved staggered quarks. In particular, we calculate the conductivities both in the free case and in the interacting case, analysing the dependence of these coefficients with several parameters, such as the temperature and the quark mass.

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  38. Najmul Haque (NISER, India)
    Poster presentation

    Gribov quantization is a method to improve the infrared dynamics of Yang-Mills theory. We study the thermodynamics and transport properties of a plasma consisting of gluons whose propagator is improved by the Gribov prescription. We first construct the thermodynamics of Gribov plasma using the gauge-invariant Gribov dispersion relation for interacting gluons. When the Gribov parameter in the...

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  39. János Takátsy (Wigner Research Centre for Physics)
    Poster presentation

    The existence of quark matter inside the cores of massive neutron stars can be probed by modern astrophysical observations. We model these hybrid stars using an (axial)vector meson extended quark-meson model to describe their quark cores, together with various hadronic models. We show that crossover phase transitions between the hadronic and quark phases can naturally create equations of state...

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  40. Ms Pushpa Panday (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)
    Poster presentation

    As the strength of the magnetic field ($B$) becomes weak, novel phenomena,
    similar to the Hall effect in condensed matter physics
    emerges both in charge and heat transport in a thermal
    QCD medium with a finite quark chemical potential ($\mu$).
    So we have calculated the transport coefficients
    in a kinetic theory within a quasiparticle framework,
    wherein we compute the effective mass...

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  41. Bithika Karmakar (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India)
    Poster presentation

    It is found from viscous hydrodynamics that the QGP created in ultra relativistic heavy-ion collisions has different longitudinal and transverse pressures at early times. This occurs due to the large momentum space anisotropy in the p_T-p_L plane. This momentum space anisotropy can cause plasma instabilities that are largely responsible for the thermalization and isotropization of the system....

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  42. Ms Adrita Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
    Poster presentation

    We study the nonperturbative aspects of nonconformal 2+1D Yang-Mills like worldvolume theories on both the isotropic and anisotropic non-supersymmetric D2 brane solution of type II supergravity. Because of broken conformality, the theories for both the cases are found to have running coupling similar to the real world QCD theories. In this context, some salient QCD-like confining properties,...

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  43. Dr Brijesh Srivastava (Purdue University)
    Poster presentation

    We present the extraction of the temperature by analyzing the charged particle transverse momentum spectra in lead-lead (Pb-Pb) and proton-proton (${\bf pp}$) collisions at LHC energies from the ALICE Collaboration using the Color String Percolation Model (CSPM) [1]. From the measured energy density ${\varepsilon}$ and the temperature T the dimensionless quantity ${ \varepsilon/}T^{4}$ is ...

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  44. Dr BALBEER SINGH (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
    Poster presentation

    The propagation of heavy quarks in the thermal medium closely resembles a Brownian motion characterized by the transport coefficients. In the leading order expansion of inverse mass, these transport coefficients, in particular momentum diffusion, are obtained from the correlators of chromo-electric (E) and chromo-magnetic (B) fields. We investigate longitudinal and transverse diffusion...

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  45. Dr Violetta Sagun (University of Coimbra)
    Poster presentation

    We study the impact of asymmetric fermionic and bosonic dark matter on neutron star properties, including tidal deformability, maximum masses, radii, etc. The conditions at which dark matter particles tend to condensate in the core of the star or create an extended halo are presented. We show that dark matter condensed in a core leads to a decrease of the total gravitational mass and tidal...

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  46. Jamie Karthein (MIT)
    Poster presentation

    In this talk, I will describe first-principles-based equations of state (EoSs) for QCD that serve as crucial input for simulations of strongly-interacting matter produced in the laboratory during heavy-ion collisions (HICs) [1,2]. The first is solely informed by the fundamental theory by utilizing all available diagonal and off-diagonal susceptibilities up to $\mathcal{O}(\mu_B^4)$ that allow...

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  47. Dr Xiaojian Du (Bielefeld University)
    Oral presentation

    Non-equilibrium systems are omnipresent in nature. QCD plasma out of equilibrium and its equilibration are of particular interest given that the relativistic heavy-ion collisions (HICs) produce the non-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma (QGP) which eventually emerges to thermal hydrodynamic states. We investigate the kinetic and chemical equilibration of weakly coupled QCD plasma at finite density...

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  48. Mr Len Brandes (Technical University of Munich)
    Poster presentation

    The phase structure of baryonic matter is investigated with focus on the role of fluctuations beyond the mean-field approximation. The prototype test case studied is the chiral nucleon-meson model, with added comments on the chiral quark-meson model. Applications to nuclear matter include the liquid-gas phase transition. Extensions to high baryon densities are performed for both nuclear and...

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  49. Aritra Bandyopadhyay
    Poster presentation

    We present a calculation of the heavy quark transport coefficients in a quark-gluon plasma under the presence of a strong external magnetic field, within the Lowest Landau Level (LLL) approximation. In particular, we apply the Hard Thermal Loop (HTL) technique for the resummed effective gluon propagator, generalized for a hot and magnetized medium. Using the derived effective HTL gluon...

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  50. Edwan Préau
    Poster presentation

    The holographic method is one of the only ways of getting analytic insight into most strongly coupled systems. When numerical methods are not available, it is even the best technique we know of to tackle these problems. In particular, lattice QCD is unable to provide results at finite baryon density, which is why a lot of effort is put into the study of holographic QCD at high density....

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  51. Ms Lakshmi J Naik
    Poster presentation

    We study the analytical attractor solutions of higher-order causal viscous hydrodynamics by considering thermal particle production from heavy-ion collisions, within the longitudinal boost-invariant expansion.
    Using these analytical solutions, the allowed initial states are constrained by demanding positivity and reality of energy density throughout the evolution. Further, we calculate the...

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  52. Dr V. Sreekanth (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India)
    Poster presentation

    We propose and apply a new parameterization of the modified chiral effective model to study rotating neutron stars with hyperon core in the framework of the relativistic mean-field theory. The inclusion of the mesonic cross couplings in the model has improved the density content of the symmetry energy slope parameters, which are in agreement with the findings from recent terrestrial...

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  53. Dr Victor Braguta (ITEP)
    Oral presentation

    This report is devoted to our study of QCD properties effected by relativistic rotation. The study is carried out within lattice simulations which are performed in the reference frame rotating with the system under investigation. First we focus on rotating gluodynamics. We found that the critical temperature of the confinement/deconfinement transition in gluodynamics grows quadratically...

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  54. Anton Perkov
    Poster presentation

    We compute the isolated photon production in association with a charged hadron at mid rapidity in pp and pA based on the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) framework of high energy QCD where, for the first time, we incorporate the Sudakov effect of soft gluon emissions. Our results are based on the leading order qg→qγ channel in the CGC framework and confronted with the recent data from RHIC and LHC...

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  55. Xoán Mayo López
    Poster presentation

    Over the last decades, the theoretical picture of how hadronic jets interact with nuclear matter has been extended to account for the medium’s finite longitudinal length and expansion. However, only recently a first-principle approach has been developed that allows to couple the jet evolution to the medium flow and anisotropic structure in the dilute limit. In this talk, we will show how to...

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  56. Shanjin Wu
    Poster presentation

    Light nuclei production is a hot research topic in heavy-ion collision at RHIC-BES. The observed non-monotonic behavior with the colliding energies[1,2] was declared to be related to the critical point of the QCD phase diagram[3,4]. In this talk, we focus on investigating the light nuclei production with and without critical fluctuations within the framework of the coalescence model.
    In the...

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  57. Abhisek Saha (University of Hyderabad)
    Oral presentation

    We demonstrate high prediction accuracy of three important properties that determine the initial geometry of the heavy-ion collision (HIC) experiments by using supervised Machine Learning(ML) methods. These properties are the impact parameter, the eccentricity and the participant eccentricity. Though ML techniques have been used previously to determine the impact parameter of these collisions,...

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  58. Mr Sumit Rana (IIT Roorkee)
    Poster presentation

    Using the hard-thermal-loop (HTL) resummation in real-time formalism, we study the next-to-leading order (NLO) quark self-energy and corresponding NLO dispersion laws. In NLO, we have replaced all the propagators and vertices with the HTL effective ones in the usual quark self-energy diagram. Additionally, a four-point vertex diagram also contributes to the quark NLO self-energy. We calculate...

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  59. Yui Hayashi (YITP, Kyoto University)
    Poster presentation

    In this talk, we discuss new symmetries of the Cardy-Rabinovici model and their applications. The Cardy-Rabinovici model is the 4d $U (1)$ gauge theory with electric and magnetic matters, and it is a good playground for studying the dynamics of 4d gauge theories. Although this model is not invariant under the $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$ electromagnetic transformations strictly, we can realize these...

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  60. Abhisek Saha (University of Hyderabad)
    Poster presentation

    We study temperature fluctuations in the initial stages of the relativistic heavy-ion collision using a multiphase transport model. We consider the plasma in the initial stages after the collision before it has a chance to equilibrate. We have considered Au + Au collision with a varying center of mass energy. We use the non-equilibrium Tsallis statistics to find the entropic index in the...

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  61. Daniel Spitz (Heidelberg University, Institute for Theoretical Physics)
    Poster presentation

    Finding order parameters for the detection of critical phenomena and self-similar behavior in and out of equilibrium is a challenging endeavour in non-Abelian gauge theories. Tailored to detect topological structures in noisy data and accompanied by stability and limit theorems, persistent homology allows for the construction of sensible and sensitive observables. Based on state-of-the-art...

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  62. Lorenzo Maio
    Poster presentation

    We discuss the phase diagram of QCD in the presence of a strong magnetic background field, providing numerical evidence, based on lattice simulations of QCD with $2+1$ flavors and physical quark masses, that the QCD crossover turns into a first order phase transition for large enough magnetic field, with a critical endpoint located between $eB = 4$ GeV$^2$ (where we found an analytic crossover...

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  63. Jacobus Verbaarschot
    Poster presentation

    QCD in three dimensions allows for a Chern-Simons term resulting in non-standard
    spontaneous symmetry breaking patterns. In three dimensions the standard breaking pattern for $2N_f$ flavors is $U(2N_f) \to U(N_f)\times U(N_f)$. However, in the presence of a Chern-Simons term at level $k$ the breaking pattern changes to $U(2N_f) \to U(N_f+k)\times U(N_f-k)$.
    In this talk we will discuss the...

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  64. Mr Máximo Coppola (National Atomic Energy Commission)
    Poster presentation

    In the presence of an external uniform magnetic field $B$, we show that new axial and vector decay constants appear for pions. A general expression for the weak decay $\pi^- \rightarrow l^- \bar{\nu}_l$ is also obtained. We calculate these decay constants within the Nambu-Jona--Lasinio (NJL) model, obtaining an enhancement of the total decay rate up to $\sim 10^3$ for $\mathrm{eB}$ = 1...

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  65. Rishabh Thakkar
    Poster presentation

    Exploring the QCD phase diagram in the finite density region suffers from the well-known issue of the sign problem. One way to avoid this issue is by expanding the observables in a Taylor series in the chemical potential. We use this approach for the calculation of observables such as screening correlators and screening masses at the finite chemical potential. We will show our calculation of...

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  66. Chowdhury Aminul Islam
    Poster presentation

    Using a current-current correlation function (CF), the photon polarization tensor is calculated for a rotating hot and dense QCD medium [1]. The spectral function (SF) and the dilepton rate (DR) are estimated therefrom. Numerical results show that both SF and DR are enhanced in a rotating medium, especially in a low invariant mass region. SF and DR are also explored in the consequences of the...

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  67. Paul Hotzy (TU Wien)
    Poster presentation

    Complex actions lead to highly oscillatory weight functions in the calculation of ensemble averages, which is known as the numerical sign problem and renders modern standard techniques such as Hybrid-Monte-Carlo (HMC) integration inappropriate for these calculations. The complex Langevin (CL) method proposes to resolve this issue by introducing a fifth artificial Langevin time and...

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  68. Rene Bellwied (University of Houston (US))
    Oral presentation

    I will discuss the potential connection between the entanglement entropy of the initial state and thermodynamic entropy of the final state in relativistic particle collisions, from proton-proton to heavy ion collisions. I will show that simple fragmentation models that ignore quantum mechanical effects break down in describing particle production and that evidence for the non-universality of...

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  69. Claudia Ratti
    Oral presentation

    I will review recent results on lattice QCD at finite temperature and density, with special emphasis on the QCD equation of state, phase transition line and fluctuations of conserved charges.

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  70. Rajamani Narayanan (Florida International University)
    Poster presentation

    I will present a summary of results on parity invariant quantum electrodynamics in three Euclidean dimensions using lattice regularization. The results will show scale invariance independent of the number of massless fermions. Results for monopole scaling dimensions and their relevance will also be discussed.

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  71. Zebin Qiu (The University of Tokyo)
    Oral presentation

    Skyrme model is among the simplest extensions of chiral effective theory including anomaly. Within such framework we investigate how an external magnetic field deforms a Skyrmion while preserving its topological winding. A crystal constituted by multiple magnetically deformed Skyrmions provides us insights of the ground state of nuclear matter in strong magnetic field. We manifest such Skyrme...

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  72. Mr Marc Barroso Mancha (TU Darmstadt)
    Poster presentation

    The aim of this project is to compute the strong sphaleron rate (the diffusion constant for the Chern-Simons topological number for quantum chromodynamics) on 4D lattices in a range of temperatures between 500 MeV and 3 GeV. This rate is important to understand the equilibration between axial quarks through the anomaly equations. Although this quantity has been previously computed in real-time...

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  73. Francesco Di Clemente (University of Ferrara)
    Poster presentation

    More than 20 years ago, Glendenning et al. (1995) proposed the existence of stable white dwarfs with a core of strange quark matter. More recently, by studying radial modes, Alford et al. (2017) concluded that those objects are unstable. We investigate again the stability of these objects by looking at their radial oscillations, and we assume that there is no phase transition between hadronic...

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  74. Sylwia Bazak (Jan Kochanowski University)
    Poster presentation

    A system of gluon fields generated at the earliest phase of relativistic heavy-ion
    collisions can be described in terms of classical fields. Numerical simulations show that the system is unstable but a character of the instability is not well understood. With the intention to systematically study the problem, we analyze a stability of classical chromomagnetic and chromoelectric fields which...

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  75. Mr Savvas Pitsinigkos (University of Southampton)
    Poster presentation

    Cold and dense matter can be explored in a systematic way both in the high-density (perturbative QCD) and low-density (Chiral EFT) regime. However, the path connecting them is yet to be discovered. As a result, these descriptions are usually extrapolated into the intermediate density regime and then connected at some transition point. In this work I will present a model that has features of...

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  76. Jens Oluf Andersen
    Oral presentation
  77. Ajaharul Islam (Kent State University)
    Poster presentation

    We generalize a complex heavy-quark potential model from an isotropic QCD plasma to an anisotropic one by replacing the Debye mass $m_D$ with an anisotropic screening mass depending on the quark pair alignment with respect to the direction of anisotropy.
    Such an angle-dependent mass is determined by matching the perturbative contributions in the potential model to the exact result obtained in...

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  78. Mr Dale Lawlor (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
    Poster presentation

    We study the thermal transitions of dense two colour QCD with two flavours of Wilson fermions at a fixed chemical potential $\mu=443$ MeV on a coarse isotropic lattice $a=0.18$ fm. The results on a larger lattice volume ($N_s=24$) are compared with earlier results with the same lattice spacing but a smaller lattice volume ($N_s=16$). Only small finite volume effects are found.
    We also...

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  79. Sergio Barrera Cabodevila (Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE))
    Poster presentation

    We study thermalization of gluons with momentum $p$ characterized by $Q$ in spatially homomgeneous systems. In initially under-populated systems in which the equilibrium temperature $T\ll Q$, soft gluons are found to be rapidly generated via radiation to fill a classical thermal distribution $\propto T^*/p$ with $T^*\gg T$. Thermal equilibrium is established only after $T^*$ approaches to $T$...

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  80. Fernando Gardim (Federal University of Alfenas), Prof. Tiago Jose Nunes da Silva (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)
    Poster presentation

    Quantum Chromodynamics, the theory of strong interactions, predicts the existence, under extreme conditions, of a deconfined state of matter known as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). We have strong evidence that such an extreme state is produced in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments, such as RHIC and the LHC. A daring question is what is the smallest possible QGP size, one that can be...

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  81. Debarshi Dey (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)
    Poster presentation

    We study the thermoelectric response of a thermal medium of deconfined quarks and gluons in the framework of relativistic kinetic theory. The response of the medium is quantified by the Seebeck and Nernst coefficients which relate the mutually longitudinal and transverse components, respectively, of the induced electric field and the temperature gradient. To obtain the above coefficients, we...

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  82. Rasmus Larsen (University of Stavanger)
    Poster presentation

    We compare the behavior of zero-modes of the overlap Dirac operator measured on the finite temperature 2+1 flavor lattice QCD configurations, generated with domain wall fermion discreitzation, to the local Polyakov Loop in the temperature range 1.1-1.2T_c, T_c being the pseudo-critical temperature. We show how the position of the zero-modes are anti-correlated to the local value of the Polyakov Loop.

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  83. José Javier Hernández Hernández
    Poster presentation

    The introduction of electric and magnetic fields in the QCD vacuum generates topological sectors with a non-zero topological charge. For weak fields, there is a linear response for the topological charge. We study this linear response which can be interpreted as the axion-photon coupling. In this work we use lattice simulations with improved staggered quarks including background electric and...

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