In a stark contrast to matter at high temperature which has been widely explored, cold dense baryonic matter is a wide-open uncharted little-understood area of research, both in theory and in experiments.
In complement to this autumn’s WCU-APCTP Focus session on the issue of mass vs radius of compact stars which is spurred by the recent discovery of a 1.97 solar-mass star, the WCU/Hanyang will have a series of lectures on the theoretical aspect of dense hadronic matter going across chiral restoration to where quark/gluon degrees of freedom
could become relevant. In this series of lectures, the problem will be addressed both by QCD-motivated approaches and by holographic QCD approaches.