Special Colloquium
Department of Physics, NCU
Delineating QCD matter in extreme conditions
Speaker
Dr. Toru Kojo
Key Laboratory of Quark and Lepton Physics and Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, China
Date 2021.2.23 (Tue)
Time 10:30am
Place S4-625
Abstract
I discuss the properties of QCD matter in extreme conditions, in particular cold, dense QCD. The dense QCD matter has been explored for a long time, but its properties remain mystery even at conceptual level. There are on-going efforts to study dense QCD by utilizing the experimental information from neutron stars and low energy heavy ion collisions as well as the results of the lattice Monte-Carlo simulations for QCD-like theories which share many features with QCD. New theoretical concepts such as quarkyonic mattter have been also developed and new interesting problems were formulated. In my talk I delineate dense QCD from the viewpoints of QCD, condensed matter physics, and nuclear astrophysics, and then discuss what should be done in next 10 years.