Phase diagram and heavy-ion collisions: Overview

Abstract

The physics of the QCD phase diagram is discussed in view from heavy-ion collisions, compact astrophysical phenomena, lattice QCD and chiral effective models. We find that (T,mu_B) region probed in heavy-ion collisions and the black hole formation processes covers most of the critical point locations predicted in recent lattice QCD Monte-Carlo simulations and chiral effective models of QCD. We also discuss the consistency of the statistical model results and dynamical model description.

Comments: Talk presented at the XLI International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD2011), Sep. 26-30, 2011, Miyajima, Japan