Speaker
Fabian Rennecke
(Justus Liebig University Giessen)
Description
nteractions in the hot and dense QCD medium give rise to extensive mixing between hadronic and gluonic degrees of freedom. The resulting mass matrix is non-Hermitian, which can lead to moat regimes with spatial modulations and instabilities towards inhomogeneous phases. I will discuss the underlying physics, implications for the QCD phase diagram and experimental opportunities.
