International Workshop at the ECT* Trento, Italy

on

QCD at Finite Density


March 21st to 25th, 2006

 

 

 

Organized by:

Sourendu Gupta, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and University of Bielefeld
Edwin Laermann, University of Bielefeld

 

 

Contact:

Sourendu Gupta: sgupta@theory.tifr.res.in
Edwin Laermann: edwin@physik.uni-bielefeld.de

 

 

Workshop Program


Scientific Content

Progress in lattice QCD at finite chemical potential was long held up due to the fact that the measure was complex in general, and no methods of Monte Carlo integration could deal with this situation. With the advent of new techniques to go around the problem, results from lattice QCD at finite chemical potential are beginning to accrue.

Interest in these computations presently centers on the phase diagram. With an increased number of variables, the Gibbs phase rule then allows interesting configurations of phase boundaries tied together with multi-critical points. Such predictions are currently under test and quantification on the lattice.

Apart from QCD at finite baryon chemical potential, interest also focusses on allied models like QCD with different numbers of gluons or quarks, and on effective models which describe QCD in some limit.

Experimental observability of the phase diagram would depend, of course, on how material properties change with parameters. Thus the interest in the equation of state, the nature of fluctuations in conserved quantities, changes in hadron properties, and transport coefficients. Since several of these quantities are extracted from hadron correlations in the medium, we plan to also cover new results and techniques in this area.

In summary, we wish to center the program around the following 4 related groups:

 

 


List of key participants

Gert Aarts Swansea Univ, UK
Shinji Ejiri Tokyo Univ, Japan
Zoltan Fodor* Wuppertal Univ, Germany
Rajiv Gavai TIFR, Mumbai, India
Philippe de Forcrand          ETH, Zürich and CERN, Switzerland
Simon Hands Swansea Univ, UK
Frithjof Karsch BNL, USA and Bielefeld Univ, Germany
Maria Lombardo INFN Frascati, Italy
Atsushi Nakamura Hiroshima Univ, Japan
Misha Stephanov Illinois Univ, Chicago, USA
Peter Petreczky BNL, USA
Tetsuo Hatsuda Tokyo Univ, Japan

(* : Not yet confirmed)

 

 

Last updated: January 10, 2006 by Gudrun Eickmeyer