New developments in studies of the QCD phase diagram

9 Sept 2024, 09:00 → 13 Sept 2024, 19:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Renzo Leonardi (ECT*)

Frithjof Karsch (University of Bielefeld), Heng-Tong Ding (Central China Normal University), Maria Paola Lombardo (INFN - LNF), Peter Petreczky (BNL)

Since the seminal paper titled “Remarks on the chiral phase transition in chromodynamics” by Pisarski and Wilczek in 1984, tremendous progress has been made in our understanding of the phase structure of strong-interaction matter, e.g. it has been established from lattice-regularized Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) that strong-interaction matter undergoes a rapid crossover transition from the hadronic phase to the quark-gluon plasma phase. 

Despite this progress key questions related to the fate of symmetry breaking patterns under extreme conditions of high temperature and large baryon number density as well as other control parameters, and particularly the influence of the axial anomaly on QCD phase transitions still remain elusive. These key questions are not only of theoretical interest but also closely related to the on-going ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions experiments. This workshop aims at bringing together experts in the field as well as young practitioners to discuss the latest developments on these studies.

Supporting Institutions and Projects

Monday 9 September

09:00 → 09:30 Registration

09:30 → 10:00 Welcome to the workshop

10:00 → 10:40 Critical point

Convener: Frithjof Karsch (University of Bielefeld)

10:00 Experimental Study of QCD Phase Diagram in Heavy-ion Collisions at RHIC

Speaker: Xiaofeng Luo (Central China Normal University)

ECT_XFLUO_202409.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 12:30 Critical point

Convener: Heng-Tong Ding (Central China Normal University)

11:10 Locating the critical end point and the phase boundary of QCD from first principle QCD

Speaker: Jan M. Pawlowski (University of Heidelberg)

talkTrentoPhaseStructure2024_pawlowski.pdf

11:50 QCD critical point in the era of BES II

Speaker: Wei-jie Fu

Fu-trento202409.pdf

12:30 → 14:50 Lunch Break

14:50 → 16:10 Critical point

Convener: Xiaofeng Luo (Central China Normal University)

14:50 Lee-Yang zeros and the QCD phase diagram

Speaker: Christian Schmidt (Bielefeld University)

Schmidt_ECT24.pdf

15:30 QCD critical point, fluctuations and hydrodynamics

Speaker: Mikhail Stephanov

ect-2024-slides.pdf

16:10 → 16:40 Coffee Break

16:40 → 17:40 Critical point

Convener: Wei-jie Fu

16:40 Strangeness neutrality and QCD phase structure from functional renormalization group

Speaker: Rui Wen (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Strangeness neutrality and QCD phase structure from functional (1).pdf

17:10 Exploring Baryon Fluctuations with Coulomb Gauge QCD

Speaker: Udita Shukla (University of Wroclaw)

Udita_Shukla_Trento2024.pdf

18:00 → 19:00 Welcome aperitif

Tuesday 10 September

09:00 → 10:20 QCD at high density

Convener: Robert Pisarski (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:00 Dense QCD matter constrained by astrophysical observation

Speaker: Kenji Fukushima (The University of Tokyo)

fukushima-1.pdf

09:40 Reaching conformality in neutron stars

Speaker: Michał Marczenko (University of Wrocław)

marczenko_ect.pdf

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 11:30 QCD at high density

Convener: Christian Schmidt (Bielefeld University)

10:50 Finite density QCD as an inverse problem

Speaker: Francesco Di Renzo (Università di Parma and INFN)

FDR_ECTstarSEPT2024.pdf

11:30 → 12:10 Chiral Phase Transition

Convener: Christian Schmidt (Bielefeld University)

11:30 What is the IR Phase Really About?

Speaker: Ivan Horvath (Nuclear Physics Institute, Řež-Prague & University of Kentucky)

Trento_Sep_2024.pdf

12:10 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 15:50 Chiral Phase Transition

Convener: Maria Paola Lombardo (INFN - LNF)

14:30 Chiral symmetry breaking in hot QCD

Speaker: Tamas Kovacs (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest)

kovacs_tg.pdf

15:10 Microscopic Encoding of Macroscopic Universality: Scaling properties of Dirac Eigenspectra near QCD Chiral Phase Transition

Speaker: Wei-Ping Huang (Central China Normal University)

HWP_ECT24.pdf

15:50 → 16:20 Coffee Break

16:20 → 17:20 Chiral Phase Transition

Convener: Jan M. Pawlowski (University of Heidelberg)

16:20 Towards a parameter-free determination of QCD critical exponents and chiral phase transition temperature

Speaker: Sabarnya Mitra (Bielefeld University)

EcT_2024_Mitra.pdf

16:50 Quark pairing and the strong coupled quark-gluon plasma

Speaker: Yi Lu (Peking University)

YiLu-ECT2024-v1.pdf

Wednesday 11 September

09:00 → 10:20 Chiral Phase Transition

Convener: Mikhail Stephanov

09:00 Veneziano's ghost and the chiral phase transition

Speaker: Robert Pisarski (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Chiral_largeN.pdf

09:40 The chiral phase transition in many flavour QCD

Speaker: Owe Philipsen

trento24.pdf

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 12:10 QCD Thermodyanmics

Convener: Francesco Di Renzo (Università di Parma and INFN)

10:50 Finite temperature QCD explored with chiral fermions

Speaker: Yasumichi Aoki (RIKEN)

ECTstar_yaoki_2024.pdf

11:30 Finite temperature QCD from lattice simulations with overlap fermions

Speaker: Andrey Kotov

Trento_Kotov_2024.pdf

12:10 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 15:40 QCD Thermodyanmics

Convener: Owe Philipsen

14:30 Three-flavour QCD phase transition with Mobius domain-wall fermions

Speaker: Yu Zhang (Bielefeld University)

ECT*24_YuZhang.pdf

15:00 Superfluids of parity-doubled baryons in neutron stars

Speaker: Chihiro Sasaki (University of Wroclaw & SKCM2 at Hiroshima University)

trento.pdf

15:40 → 16:10 Coffee Break

16:10 → 17:20 Discussions

Convener: Frithjof Karsch (University of Bielefeld)

20:00 → 22:00 Banquet

Thursday 12 September

09:00 → 10:20 QCD Thermodyanmics

Convener: Peter Petreczky (BNL)

09:00 Recent progress on the QCD phase diagram

Speaker: Jana N. Guenther (University of Wuppertal)

ETC24guenther.pdf

09:40 New Insights into Charm Thermodynamics from the Lattice Continuum Limit

Speaker: Sipaz Sharma (Bielefeld University)

ECT.pdf

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 12:00 QCD in external fields

Convener: Michał Marczenko (University of Wrocław)

10:50 Chiral restoration and deconfinement phase transitions under external magnetic field

Speaker: Shijun Mao (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

2024.09.12 ECT @Trento.pptx

11:30 Fluctuations of conserved charges in strong magnetic fields with (2+1)-flavor QCD

Speaker: Jin-Biao Gu (Central China Normal University)

ECT*_jbgu.pdf

12:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 15:30 QCD in external fields

Convener: Chihiro Sasaki (University of Wroclaw & SKCM2 at Hiroshima University)

14:30 QCD EoS in strong magnetic fields and nonzero baryon density

Speaker: Arpith Kumar (Central China Normal University)

arpith_ect24.pdf

15:00 The Roberge-Weiss transition in N_f = 2+1 QCD with background magnetic fields

Speaker: Kevin Zambello (University of Pisa and INFN)

ectstar24_zambello_v2.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:10 QCD in external fields

Convener: Pok Man Lo (University of Wroclaw)

16:00 QCD phase diagram in the $T-eB$ plane for varying pion mass

Speaker: Aminul Islam Chowdhury (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

slides_cai.pdf

16:30 Chiral Soliton Lattice turns into 3D crystal

Speaker: Andreas Schmitt (University of Southampton)

schmitt.pdf

Friday 13 September

09:00 → 10:00 QCD and Machine Learning

Convener: Andreas Schmitt (University of Southampton)

09:00 Work in progress on analytic continuation from imaginary chemical potential

Speaker: Marco Aliberti (University of Parma and INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

ECT_Workshop_2024.pdf

09:30 Testing machine learning against finite size scaling using MAFs

Speaker: Simran Singh (Universität Bielefeld)

TrentoTalkSSingh.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 11:50 QCD and HRG

Convener: Kenji Fukushima (The University of Tokyo)

10:30 In-medium effects from S-matrix

Speaker: Pok Man Lo (University of Wroclaw)

pml_trento2024.pdf

11:10 Fluctuations of conserved charges from lattice and HRG and the freezout in HIC

Speaker: Peter Petreczky (BNL)

trento24.pdf

11:50 → 12:00 Adjournment

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch Break