1–5 Sept 2026
University of Sussex
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Precondensation and inhomogeneous instabilities in high-density QCD

3 Sept 2026, 09:20
20m
Gallery Room 2 (Bramber House)

Gallery Room 2

Bramber House

Speaker

Franz Richard Sattler (University Bielefeld)

Description

QCD at large densities exhibits a moat regime in the scalar-pseudoscalar sector. The resolution of its dynamics is pivotal to access the onset of new phases, including the potential critical endpoint of QCD.
I report on a first self-consistent analysis of this regime, using the first-principles functional renormalisation group approach to QCD.
Mapping out the moat regime, we find a potential inhomogeneous instability at baryon chemical potential $\mu_B \gtrsim 600$MeV on the chiral crossover line.
I discuss the stability of this instability together with the closely connected phenomenon of precondensation, which can be probed in a natural manner using the fRG.

Affiliation University Bielefeld
Link to paper https://inspirehep.net/literature/3095270
Career status Postdoc

Author

Franz Richard Sattler (University Bielefeld)

Co-authors

Alvaro Pastor Gutierrez (RIKEN iTHEMS) Fabian Rennecke (Justus Liebig University Giessen) Jan M. Pawlowski

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