2004/10/15 by N. G. Antoniou, F. Κ. Diakonos, F. K. Diakonos +4
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #advanced mathematical theories #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0410236
18 pages, 8 figures in 2 files
arxiv created 2004/10/15 · openalex publication_date 2004/10/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The critical sector of strong interactions at high temperatures is explored in the frame of two complementary paradigms: Statistical Bootstrap for the hadronic phase and Lattice QCD for the Quark-Gluon partition function. A region of thermodynamic instability of hadronic matter was found, as a direct prediction of Statistical Bootstrap. As a result, critical end point solutions for nonzero chemical potential were traced in the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter, consistently with chiral QCD and recent lattice calculations. The relevance of these solutions for current and future experiments with nuclei at high energies is also discussed.