Year: 2010
Type: preprint
Abstract: This article reviews recent progress of QCD phase structure, including color superconductor at high baryon density and strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) at high temperature created through relativistic heavy ion collision. A brief overview is given on the discovery of sQGP at RHIC. The possibility of locating the critical end point (CEP) from the property of bulk viscosity over entropy density is discussed. For the phase structure at high baryon density, the status of the unconventional color superconducting phase with mismatched pairing is reviewed. The chromomagnetic instability, Sarma instability and Higgs instability in the gapless color superconducting phase are clarified.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Author: Huang, Mei
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1908303323