Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

The QCD phase diagram at non-zero baryon and isospin chemical potentials

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Heidelberg University 

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

3 Scopus citations

Abstract

In heavy ion collision experiments as well as in neutron stars, both baryon and isospin chemical potentials are different from zero. In particular, the regime of small isospin chemical potentials is phenomenologically important. Using a random matrix model, we find that the phase diagram at non-zero temperature and baryon chemical potential is greatly altered by an arbitrarily small isospin chemical potential: There are two first order phase transitions at low temperature, two critical endpoints, and two crossovers at high temperature. As a consequence, in the region of the phase diagram explored by RHIC experiments, there are two crossovers that separate the hadronic phase from the quark-gluon plasma phase at high temperature.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)562-564
Number of pages3
JournalNuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Volume140
Issue numberSPEC. ISS.
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2005

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'The QCD phase diagram at non-zero baryon and isospin chemical potentials'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this