Across the deconfinement

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent lattice simulation results on how the (pseudo)critical temperature in QCD varies with small baryonic chemical potential at finite density, an area still not fully understood.

Contribution

It provides an overview of the latest findings on the dependence of the (pseudo)critical temperature on baryonic chemical potential at finite density.

Findings

Dependence of (pseudo)critical temperature on chemical potential at small densities

Recent lattice simulation results summarized

Insights into finite density QCD transition

Abstract

The deconfinement transition at vanishing chemical potential can be reliably studied by lattice simulations and its general features are by now well known. On the contrary, what happens at finite density is still largely unknown and we will review the results obtained in the last year regarding the dependence, for small density, of the (pseudo)critical temperature on the baryonic chemical potential.