Speaker
Description
The deconfined phase of QCD called quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in the relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments is of the size of a few fermi, which is comparable to the characteristic interaction scale. Hence, understanding the effect of the finite-system geometry with a suitable boundary condition is necessary for its theoretical understanding. We study the finite volume effects using different boundary conditions (periodic, anti-periodic, MIT, etc.) within the framework of the two-flavour Nambu—Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model. We look at the chiral quark condensate and the quark number susceptibilities. We also compare the results from the NJL model at the mean-field level with results obtained from lattice QCD, where lattice results are available.
| Session | Heavy Ions and QCD |
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