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How strange: Phase diagrams with 3 critical points
Abstract
We show that the Chiral Mean-Field model (CMF) can produce a phase diagram with three critical points: the nuclear liquid-gas transition, quark deconfinement, and a strangeness driven transition. The strangeness driven transition separates a mainly nucleonic phase from one dominated by hyperons and baryon resonances. We discuss the compositional change in these transitions and their possible signatures in heavy-ion collisions and neutron star mergers.
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BibTeX
@misc{pelicer2026strange,
title = {{How strange: Phase diagrams with 3 critical points}},
author = {Mateus Reinke Pelicer and Nikolas Cruz Camacho and Rajesh Kumar and Veronica Dexheimer and Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.08865},
eprint = {2609.08865},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08865},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - How strange: Phase diagrams with 3 critical points
AU - Mateus Reinke Pelicer
AU - Nikolas Cruz Camacho
AU - Rajesh Kumar
AU - Veronica Dexheimer
AU - Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/08
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.08865
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08865
AB - We show that the Chiral Mean-Field model (CMF) can produce a phase diagram with three critical points: the nuclear liquid-gas transition, quark deconfinement, and a strangeness driven transition. The strangeness driven transition separates a mainly nucleonic phase from one dominated by hyperons and baryon resonances. We discuss the compositional change in these transitions and their possible signatures in heavy-ion collisions and neutron star mergers.
ER -