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HIC for FAIR logo Nuclear Physics Colloquium

Venue: Physics Building, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, Seminar Room PHYS 2.116
Time: Thursday, September 20, 4:30pm (s.t.)
Contact: hees@th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de

What critical endpoint? The Lifshitz regime in QCD

Robert Pisarski (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

I discuss an alternate form of the phase diagram in QCD: instead of a critical endpoint, there is a line of first order transitions to a regime with spatially inhomogenous phases.  The relation to examples such as inhomogeneous polymers is also discussed.

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