Conveners
Session 3
- Claudio Coriano' (LE)
We discuss the phase diagram of QCD in the presence of a strong magnetic background field, providing numerical evidence, based on lattice simulations of QCD with $2+1$ flavors and physical quark masses, that the QCD crossover turns into a first order phase transition for large enough magnetic field, with a critical endpoint located between $eB = 4$ GeV$^2$ (where we found an analytic crossover...
In this talk we present our study of the electromagnetic conductivity in dense quark-gluon plasma obtained within lattice simulations with $N_f$ = 2 + 1 dynamical quarks. We employ stout improved rooted staggered quarks at the physical point and the tree-level Symanzik improved gauge action. The simulations are performed at imaginary chemical potential. To reconstruct electromagnetic...
In this talk I will discuss the application of the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model for holographic QCD to neutron star matter. I will begin with a brief review of the important features of the model, including the recent theoretical advances provided by Kovensky and Schmitt in allowing for isospin asymmetric homogeneous baryonic matter. I will then describe how this can be used to construct the...
