Quarkyonic percolation in dense nuclear matter

Abstract

We examine the phase diagram of hadronic matter when the number of colours $N_c$, as well as temperature and density, are varied. We show that in this regime a new percolation phase transition is possible, and examine the implications of this transition for extrapolations to physical QCD of the large-N_c limit.

Comments: 6 pages; 4 figures; proceeding for Excited QCD 2012 - May 6-12, Peniche, Portugal