Speaker
Paolo Parotto
(Università di Torino e INFN Torino)
Description
First principle investigations are of fundamental interest for the study of the QCD phase diagram, both in their own right, and in light of experimental measurements from heavy-ion collision experiments, as well as from future observations from gravitational waves. Though not much is known (but much is conjectured) about the phase structure of QCD, a lot of progress has been made in the exploration of QCD thermodynamics. Direct simulations at finite baryon density are very difficult, owing to the complex action problem, yet a number of different approaches allow to access finite-density thermodynamics. I will discuss our knowledge of the QCD phase diagram and present recent lattice results on a number of thermodynamic quantities.
Primary author
Paolo Parotto
(Università di Torino e INFN Torino)
