报告题目：Exploring the QCD phase diagram with the functional renormalization group

报 告 人：Bernd-Jochen Schaefer (Graz University, Austria)

报告时间：2014年9月2日10:30

报告地点：理科楼B315

报告摘要：The possible emergence of a critical endpoint is one of the distinctive features of the finite temperature and density phase diagram of strongly-interacting matter. With QCD-inspired models the relevant high-density region in the phase diagram can be accessed. In this talk I begin with a brief introduction to the functional renormalization group method and give a rough review of the theoretical progress in our understanding of the QCD phase diagram. The role of quantum and thermal fluctuations is addressed and some applications in heavy-ion collisions are given. Recent results are discussed for the nature of the chiral and confinement-deconfinement phase transitions, their interrelation, and for the thermodynamics as well as finite volume effects.