Traces of the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition in the analytic properties of hot QCD
Traces of the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition in the analytic properties of hot QCD
The nuclear liquid-gas transition at normal nuclear densities, $n \sim n_0 = 0.16$ fm$^{-3}$, and small temperatures, $T \sim 20$ MeV, has a large influence on analytic properties of the QCD grand-canonical thermodynamic potential. A classical van der Waals equation is used to determine these unexpected features due to dense …