Color confinement is studied in dual version of SU (2) color gauge theory using its topological structure and the dynamical breaking of the magnetic symmetry which has been shown to effectively trigger the QCD monopole condensation in a dynamical way. The resulting flux tube structure of the QCD vacuum is explored which has been shown to lead to the perfect dual superconducting nature to the QCD vacuum in its dynamically broken phase. The analysis of the flux tube energy at different hadronic length scales has been shown to lead to the appearance of the strong confinement forces in QCD vacuum at large hadronic distances and an indication for the deconfinement phase at small scales. The analysis of the flux tube energy is then used to compute numerically the critical radius and the critical flux tube density of the phase transition from the flux tube phase to deconfined one inside hadrons. The numerical estimates are shown to be in fairly good agreement with the analytical values. The possible implications of these critical parameters on the formation of QGP as a result of the flux tubes fusion in intermediate energy regime are also discussed.
In this article, there are 18 sections discussing various current topics in the field of relativistic heavy-ion collisions and related phenomena, which will serve as a snapshot of the current state of the art. Section 1 reviews experimental results of some recent light-flavored particle production data from ALICE collaboration. Other sections are mostly theoretical in nature. Very strong but transient magnetic field created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions could have important observational consequences. This has generated a lot of theoretical activity in the last decade. Sections 2, 7, 9, 10 and 11 deal with the effects of the magnetic field on the properties of the QCD matter. More specifically, Sec. 2 discusses mass of [Formula: see text] in the linear sigma model coupled to quarks at zero temperature. In Sec. 7, one-loop calculation of the anisotropic pressure are discussed in the presence of strong magnetic field. In Sec. 9, chiral transition and chiral susceptibility in the NJL model is discussed for a chirally imbalanced plasma in the presence of magnetic field using a Wigner function approach. Sections 10 discusses electrical conductivity and Hall conductivity of hot and dense hadron gas within Boltzmann approach and Sec. 11 deals with electrical resistivity of quark matter in presence of magnetic field. There are several unanswered questions about the QCD phase diagram. Sections 3, 11 and 18 discuss various aspects of the QCD phase diagram and phase transitions. Recent years have witnessed interesting developments in foundational aspects of hydrodynamics and their application to heavy-ion collisions. Sections 12 and 15–17 of this article probe some aspects of this exciting field. In Sec. 12, analytical solutions of viscous Landau hydrodynamics in 1+1D are discussed. Section 15 deals with derivation of hydrodynamics from effective covariant kinetic theory. Sections 16 and 17 discuss hydrodynamics with spin and analytical hydrodynamic attractors, respectively. Transport coefficients together with their temperature- and density-dependence are essential inputs in hydrodynamical calculations. Sections 5, 8 and 14 deal with calculation/estimation of various transport coefficients (shear and bulk viscosity, thermal conductivity, relaxation times, etc.) of quark matter and hadronic matter. Sections 4, 6 and 13 deal with interesting new developments in the field. Section 4 discusses color dipole gluon distribution function at small transverse momentum in the form of a series of Bells polynomials. Section 6 discusses the properties of Higgs boson in the quark–gluon plasma using Higgs–quark interaction and calculate the Higgs decays into quark and anti-quark, which shows a dominant on-shell contribution in the bottom-quark channel. Section 13 discusses modification of coalescence model to incorporate viscous corrections and application of this model to study hadron production from a dissipative quark–gluon plasma.
An attempt has been made to analyze the magnetic symmetry of the non-Abelian gauge theory associated with the strong interactions using the fibre bundle formulation. Utilizing the gauge field topology, the analysis of dual dynamics associated with the non-Abelian fields is shown to have important bearings on the nonperturbative hadronic effects like confinement of colored quarks and gluons inside hadrons. The state of dual superconductivity for the magnetically condensed vacuum has been analyzed to understand the bulk QCD magnetic properties by evaluating the current correlators in magnetic gauge in terms of the dielectric parameters. The dielectric behavior has been shown to lead to the p-4 confining nature to the dual gluon propagators and to provide an effective macroscopic description of the complicated nonperturbative microscopic interactions of charged particles in dual QCD. The p-4 behavior of dual gluon propagator has also been shown to confirm the linearly rising inter-quark confining potential with an explicit dual gluon mass dependency in dual QCD.
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