Phase diagram of QCD

We analyze the phase diagram of QCD with two massless quark flavors in the space of temperature (Formula presented) and chemical potential of the baryon charge μ using available experimental knowledge of QCD, insights gained from various models, as well as general and model independent arguments including continuity, universality, and thermodynamic relations. A random matrix model is used to describe the chiral symmetry restoration phase transition at finite (Formula presented) and μ. In agreement with general arguments, this model predicts a tricritical point in the (Formula presented) plane. Certain critical properties at such a point are universal and can be relevant to heavy ion collision experiments.