Measurements of the dynamical correlations between neutral and charged kaons in central Pb-Pb collisions at √s_NN = 2.76 TeV by the ALICE Collaboration display anomalous behavior relative to conventional heavy-ion collision simulators. We consider other conventional statistical models, none of which can reproduce the magnitude and centrality dependence of the correlations. The data can be...
In this talk, I will discuss recent progress in our understanding of pion and kaon condensation in dense QCD. Using chiral perturbation theory at finite isospin and strangeness density, we map out the phase diagram. We also include electromagnetic interactions. The equation of state, speed of sound, chiral and pion condensates are calculated to next-to-leading order in the low-energy...
The ALICE collaboration has delivered in recent years unprecedented precision information on the residual strong interaction for several hadron pairs in the strange quark sector. These results have been obtained by analyzing the momentum correlation of particle pairs produced in pp and p-Pb collisions at the LHC. In such colliding systems hadrons are emitted at relative distances of the order...
I will review the progress in lattice QCD at non-zero temperature and
density, including the calculations
of the equation of state at non-zero baryon density, the nature of the
chiral transition as function of
the quark mass and quantitates related to heavy flavor probes of hot
matter. The latter includes, the
lattice calculation of the heavy quark diffusion constant, heavy...
