Speaker
David Blaschke
(University of Wroclaw, Poland and Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia)
Description
Starting from model Lagragians of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) type that share basic symmetries with the QCD Lagrangian we demonstrate in these lectures how to use the Path-Integral formalism in order to obtain dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and color superconductivity at the mean-field level of description and how to describe the formation and dissociation of hadronic bound states of quarks when going beyond that approximation. The status of the quest for a unified equation of state for quark-hadron matter is discussed and its importance for applications to simulations of heavy-ion collisions and the evolution of compact stars and their mergers is outlined.
Author
David Blaschke
(University of Wroclaw, Poland and Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia)
