840. Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar on Real-Time and Non-Equilibrium Quantum Field Theory

Session

Colloquium

4 Sept 2025, 16:15

Oberwölz, Austria

31. Chiral Quark Dynamics

Prof. Hugo Reinhardt (Tübingen University)

4. Columbia plot, critical point and bound states in dense QCD

Talk

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...