Conveners
Wednesday AM: 1
- Francesco Di Renzo (University of Parma & INFN)
Wednesday AM: 2
- Gert Aarts (Swansea University)
Dr
Claudia Ratti
(University of Houston)
8/3/16, 9:00 AM
Bulk properties of the quark-gluon plasma
Talk
I will review the most recent results on QCD thermodynamics from lattice simulations. In particular, I will focus on the equation of state at zero and finite chemical potential, the curvature of the QCD phase diagram and fluctuations of conserved charges. The latter will be discussed in relation with the experimental Beam Energy Scan program at RHIC.
Dr
Christian Schmidt
(Universitaet Bielefeld)
8/3/16, 9:45 AM
Bulk properties of the quark-gluon plasma
Talk
We present results from a calculation of the QCD equation of state up
to the sixth order in the baryon number, strangeness and electric charge
chemical potentials. We consider various cases to express strangeness
and electric charge chemical potentials as function of the baryon
chemical potential and temperature. Among those, the conditions met in
heavy ion collision are best reproduced...
Dr
Claudio Bonati
(Università di Pisa)
8/3/16, 10:10 AM
Strongly interacting Dark Matter
Talk
We will present a determination of the topological properties of QCD for temperatures up to around 600MeV, obtained by using Lattice QCD simulations with 2+1 flavours of fermions at the physical point. Numerical results will be compared with the predictions of instanton gas calculations and the implications of these results for the cosmological bounds on the axion mass will be discussed.
Daniel Nogradi
(Eotvos University)
8/3/16, 11:05 AM
Bulk properties of the quark-gluon plasma
Talk
I will review recent numerical results as well as new ideas and approaches to finite temperature lattice QCD at zero chemical potential.
Dr
Bastian Brandt
(University of Frankfurt)
8/3/16, 11:50 AM
QCD phase diagram
Talk
We investigate the phase diagram of QCD at finite isospin chemical potential using 2+1 flavours of staggered fermions with physical quark masses at different lattice spacings and volumes. For high chemical potentials and low temperatures the confined phase shows a transition to the pion condensation phase. This phase is characterised by a proliferation of low modes that slow down the...
Prof.
Kazuyuki Kanaya
(CiRfSE, Univ. Tsukuba)
8/3/16, 12:15 PM
Bulk properties of the quark-gluon plasma
Talk
We study the temperature-dependence of the topological susceptibility, determined in (2+1)-flavor QCD with improved Wilson quarks. To calculate the topological charge and its susceptibility, we adopt the gradient flow method. With heavy up and down quarks ($m_{\rm PS}/m_V \approx 0.63$) and approximately physical strange quark, we study in the range $T=174-697$ MeV.
