Chiral Thermodynamics of Dense QCD

Abstract

We show a phase diagram of a two-flavored parity doublet model on top of the nuclear matter ground state within the mean field approximation. An exotic phase with unbroken center symmetry of chiral group is also discussed. When crossing this phase boundary the baryon number susceptibility exhibits a characteristic feature.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in proceedings of "New Frontiers in QCD 2010 (NFQCD10)", Kyoto, Japan, 18 January to 19 March, 2010