Description
Converging results from different approaches locate the critical end point (CEP) of QCD
at large chemical potential, i.e. in the realm of dense QCD. We summarise recent
theoretical results within functional methods on the location of the CEP and its
variation under systematic changes of the light and strange quark masses. We furthermore
discuss the physics at large chemical potential including the properties of bound states
and the possible appearance of interesting new phases.
Author
Prof.
Christian Fischer
(University of Giessen, Germany)
