Locating the QCD Critical Point in the Phase Diagram

Abstract

It is shown that the hadronic matter formed at high temperatures, according to the prescription of the statistical bootstrap principle, develops a critical point at nonzero baryon chemical potential, associated with the end point of a first-order, quark-hadron phase-transition line. The location of the critical point is evaluated as a function of the MIT bag constant.

Comments: 13 pages, 6 figures Presented at the X International Workshop on Multiparticle Production ``Correlations and Fluctuations on QCD'', 8-15 June 2002, Istron Bay, Ag. Nikolaos, Crete, GREECE