Quarks in strong magnetic fields

20 May 2014, 10:20
20m
helium (darmstadtium)

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darmstadtium

Schlossgraben 1 64283 Darmstadt Germany
Contributed Talk QCD Phase Diagram QCD phase diagram

Speaker

Toru Kojo (Bielefeld University)

Description

It has been known that magnetic fields enhance the chiral symmetry breaking (ChSB). According to studies of QED or models of the 4-fermi interactions, it was expected that the enhanced ChSB would resist the chiral restoration effects, increasing critical temperatures for the chiral restoration and deconfinement. Recent lattice calculations, however, showed the opposite behavior: the critical temperatures are reduced as a magnetic field increases. I will discuss how to resolve this apparent paradox, emphasizing which characteristic features of QCD make differences from other models.
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Author

Toru Kojo (Bielefeld University)

Co-author

Dr Nan Su (Bielefeld University)

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