Lattice QCD at high temperature and the QGP

We review recent progress in studies of bulk thermodynamics of strongly interacting matter, present results on the QCD equation of state and discuss the status of studies of the phase diagram at non-vanishing quark chemical potential.

12.38.Gc
12.38.Mh
quantum chromodynamics
quark-gluon plasma
lattice field theory
high-temperature effects
equations of state

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