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Understanding the properties of quark matter and its phase structure can enhance our knowledge of universe evolution and the structure of visible matters. In the last two decades, many experimental evidences for the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) have been observed in high energy heavy-ion collisions. Therefore, exploring the QCD phase structure at high baryon density, such as...
I will discuss some consequences of the proposed modification of the nuclear force due to the QCD critical end point (CEP). A simple model for the internucleon potential close to the CEP suggests that attraction among nucleons is likely to dominate over repulsion. The net effect would result in sizable nuclear correlations, and the possible formation of pre-clusters of nucleons. In this...
The global scientific goal of the NICA/MPD (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility / Multy Purpose
Detector) project realizing at JINR is to explore the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter in the
region of high compression. The proposed program allows to search for possible signs of the phase
transitions and critical phenomena in heavy ion (up to Au) collisions at centre-of-mass...
A short overview is presented on the recent experimental studies of the QCD phase diagram at low collision energy range $\sqrt{s} \le 11$ GeV, covered in the future by NICA collider. It also considered some physics analyses which are feasible with the first stage of MPD detector and proposed new ones which may give a new way of looking at possible QCD phase transition at NICA energy range
After almost 40 years of experiments on heavy ion collisions (HIC) the situation with the discovery the new phases of QCD is somewhat paradoxic. On the one hand, we are sure that at highest RHIC energies the partons are created in HIC, but on the other hand, we do not know the answers to three principal questions:
1. At high baryonic charge densities the chiral symmetry restoration and color...
