Speaker
Lorenzo Maio
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Description
A background magnetic field is able to alter the confinement and chiral properties of QCD. We study the effects of two extremely strong magnetic background intensities, namely $eB=4$ and $9$ GeV$^2$, on the phase structure of the QCD with $2+1$ flavors at the physical point, by means of lattice simulations. We find evidences for a first order phase transition in the stronger magnetic field, occurring at an unexpected low temperature: about $60$ MeV. Then, we provide the updated phase diagram of the QCD in a background magnetic field.
Primary authors
Alfredo Stanzione
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Francesco Sanfilippo
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Lorenzo Maio
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Massimo D'Elia
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
