The Strangeness and Chirality group at UFTP investigates the properties and the phase structure of strange and nonstrange strongly interacting matter at high densities and temperatures. Topics of interest include
In the last years the strangeness and chirality group at UFTP developed a chiral hadronic model that successfully describes the vacuum properties of hadrons, infinite nuclear matter and finite nuclei. Furthermore the model was extended to give an effective description of dense, hot and strange hadronic matter and therefore allowing for the investigation of the phase structure of strongly interacting matter. The main focus of our present work is the investigation of the chiral phase transition and further exotic hadronic states (e.g. density isomers, MEMOs, Kaon kondensation). Using different approaches, equilibrium and nonequilibrium, microscopic and macroscopic, we try to find the significant observables and pin down the influence of the chiral phase transition.
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