trailThe quark-hadron phase transition at high baryon density is first order
Strangeness distillation from a baryon-rich quark-gluon plasma dominates strangelet production in heavy-ion collisions
Model-based case for a first-order transition· for
Effective models of QCD predict a first-order phase transition at high baryon chemical potential
Repulsive vector interactions in NJL-type models can weaken or eliminate the first-order chiral transition
Nambu–Jona-Lasinio models exhibit a first-order chiral phase transition at low temperature and high baryon chemical potential
Quark-meson models predict a first-order chiral phase transition at high baryon chemical potential
Empirical and first-principles status· neutral
Heavy-ion experiments have found no conclusive signature of a QCD critical point or first-order transition
STAR beam energy scan net-proton fluctuation measurements deviate from non-critical baselines but below discovery significance
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The NA61/SHINE energy and system-size scan found no signal of the QCD critical point
No collapse of proton directed flow or other first-order transition signature has been established in heavy-ion collisions
Quark-hadron continuity· against
Color-flavor-locked quark matter and hadronic matter share the same symmetry-breaking pattern, permitting quark-hadron continuity
Three-flavor color-flavor-locked quark matter spontaneously breaks chiral symmetry and baryon-number symmetry
Superfluid hyperonic hadronic matter realizes chiral symmetry breaking and baryon-number superfluidity matching the CFL phase
Low-energy excitations of color-flavor-locked quark matter map one-to-one onto those of hyperonic hadronic matter
Phases of matter with the same symmetry-breaking pattern can always be connected without a phase transition
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The fermion sign problem prevents direct lattice QCD calculation at large baryon chemical potential
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The QCD quark-hadron transition at low baryon density is a smooth crossover
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The quark-hadron phase transition at high baryon density is first order
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