{"total":15,"items":[{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.13958","ref_index":9,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Baryoid Dark Matter from $\\mathbb{Z}_N$ Domain Walls: The $(N-1):1$ origin of the dark matter-baryon coincidence","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-05-13T18:00:01+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"UNKNOWN","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Collapsing Z_N domain walls trap baryons into dense baryoids, yielding a dark matter-baryon energy density ratio of approximately (N-1):1 after the QCD phase transition.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"neutron star) where they can exist as quark-gluon plasma or quark matter. In Ref. [8], Witten proposed the possible existence of \"quark nuggets\", which, if more stable than ordinary nuclei, can serve as dark matter candidates. Nevertheless, as the formation of quark nuggets requires a first-order QCD phase transition, which turns out to be a mere crossover in the SM [9, 10], the introduction of physics beyond the SM (BSM) is inevitable for this purpose. Moreover, although there exist some caveats, quark nuggets predicted by the SM QCD are unlikely to be more stable than ordinary nuclei [11, 12] (see Ref. [13] for an alternative opinion). Some BSM quark nugget models include axion quark nuggets [14] and six-flavor quark nuggets [15]."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.27993","ref_index":4,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Hadron properties at finite temperature","primary_cat":"nucl-th","submitted_at":"2026-04-30T15:21:01+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":2.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"A review of thermal modifications to light and heavy hadron properties via imaginary-time formalism, effective field theories, unitarized approaches, and lattice QCD, with links to heavy-ion phenomenology.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"provide direct information on the temperature and space-time dynamics of the fireball [1, 2, 3]. As the system expands and cools, it undergoes a transition into a hadronic phase in which colorless bound states dominate the relevant degrees of freedom. In addition, the medium crosses the chiral transition from a chiral-restored to a chiral-broken phase. AtµB =0(zero baryochemical potential) this transition is known to be a crossover [4] around a temperaturedenotedasT c ≃160MeV(seeSection2.3formoredetails). Thelatestagesofthecollisionarecharacterizedby a hadronic medium that persists for a finite time on the order of a few fm/cand can be approximately described as a locally thermalized hadron gas. Even within this relatively short-lived phase, finite-temperature effects can substantially alter"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.22514","ref_index":1,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Quark Number Susceptibilities and Conserved Charge Fluctuations in $(2+1)$-flavor QCD with M\\\"obius domain-wall fermions (MDWF)","primary_cat":"hep-lat","submitted_at":"2026-04-24T12:54:33+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Lattice simulations with Möbius domain-wall fermions find that conserved charge fluctuations in (2+1)-flavor QCD match hadron resonance gas predictions below the pseudocritical temperature and rise toward free-quark limits above it.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.19649","ref_index":6,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Finite-density equation of state of hot QCD using the complex Langevin equation","primary_cat":"hep-lat","submitted_at":"2026-04-21T16:37:53+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Continuum-extrapolated lattice QCD simulations with complex Langevin produce the equation of state at high baryon chemical potentials above the crossover temperature at the physical point.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"Lett.94, 170201 (2005), arXiv:cond-mat/0408370. [4] C. R. Allton, M. D¨ oring, S. Ejiri, S. J. Hands, O. Kacz- marek, F. Karsch, E. Laermann, and K. Redlich, Phys. Rev. D71, 054508 (2005), arXiv:hep-lat/0501030. [5] S. Bors' anyi, G. Endr˝ odi, Z. Fodor, S. D. Katz, S. Krieg, C. Ratti, and K. K. Szab' o, JHEP2012(053), arXiv:1204.6710 [hep-lat]. 6 [6] A. Bazavov, H.-T. Ding, P. Hegde, O. Kaczmarek, F. Karsch, E. Laermann, Y. Maezawa, S. Mukherjee, H. Ohno, P. Petreczky, H. Sandmeyer, P. Steinbrecher, C. Schmidt, S. Sharma, W. Soeldner, and M. Wagner, Phys. Rev. D95, 054504 (2017), arXiv:1701.04325 [hep- lat]. [7] M. D'Elia, G. Gagliardi, and F. Sanfilippo, Phys. Rev. D 95, 094503 (2017), arXiv:1611."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.07564","ref_index":14,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Statistical hadronization: successes and some open issues","primary_cat":"nucl-th","submitted_at":"2026-04-08T20:05:58+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":2.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"The statistical hadronization model successfully describes hadron production in nuclear collisions over broad energies, with implications for QCD phase structure.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"support","context_text":"Chemical freeze-out is addressed phenomenologically within the statistical hadronization model (SHM) [9, 10, 11]. The value of the pseudo- critical temperateT c for the chiral crossover transition at vanishingµ B is currently calculated in Lattice QCD (LQCD) to be 156.5±1.5 MeV [12] and 158.0±0.6 MeV [13]. LQCD results also quantify a small decrease ofT c with increasingµ B as long asµ B ≲400 MeV [14, 12, 13]. Within this parameter range the chiral transition is still of crossover type [15]. The temperature for the deconfinement transition is more difficult to evaluate in LQCD due to the lack of an order parameter at finite quark masses. A recent extrap- olation of the static quark entropy [16] puts the deconfinement transition line very close to the one for the chiral transition."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.05144","ref_index":33,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Species-dependent viscous corrections at particlization: A novel relaxation time approximation approach","primary_cat":"nucl-th","submitted_at":"2026-04-06T20:12:35+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"A new RTA form with counter-terms yields species-dependent first-order viscous corrections that modify light-hadron yields and K/π, p/π ratios in p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"hydrodynamic regime, this process is encoded in the equation of state, which can be obtained from Lattice QCD [26, 27]. The thermodynamic properties obtained in this formalism are compatible with the hadron resonance gas model [26-32] at sufficiently low temperatures, and it was established that the QGP and the HRG phases are connected through a crossover [33]. In this way, the late stages in hybrid models for ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions involve the evolution of an HRG. There is an implicit assumption that, for a certain range of temperatures, both a continuum description based on hydrodynamics and a discrete description based on kinetic theory can describe the evolution of the system. In hybrid models, a numerical procedure known as particlization takes place within the"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2603.16230","ref_index":4,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Lattice QCD at finite temperature and density","primary_cat":"hep-lat","submitted_at":"2026-03-17T08:10:35+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":2.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"A review of lattice QCD findings on the finite-temperature QCD transition at zero baryon chemical potential, its chiral limit behavior, constraints on the phase boundary and critical endpoint at finite density, plus advances under external fields and conditions.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2602.14811","ref_index":9,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"RG-Invariant Symmetry Ratio for QCD: A Study of $U(1)_A$ and Chiral Symmetry 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a universal lower bound β/H_* ≃ 5 and shows that viable PBH dark-matter parameter space in classically conformal gauge-Higgs theories is severely limited by percolation and QCD constraints.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"tentially through first-order phase transitions (FOPTs). In the Standard Model (SM) both the electroweak (EW) and QCD phase transitions are crossovers [21, 22]. Nevertheless, many scenarios beyond the Stan- dard Model (BSM) predict a strong first-order EW phase transition (PT), producing GWs within the sensitiv- ity range of the future Laser Interferometer Space An- tenna (LISA) [23, 24]. A compelling class of BSM theo- ries are classically conformal extensions of the SM, which generate some of the strongest GW signals due to signif- icant supercooling [25-54]. In slow, strongly supercooled FOPTs, each Hubble patch contains a few large true vac- uum bubbles, enclosing remnant false vacuum regions. These late-decaying regions can induce large-scale inho-"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"1907.08179","ref_index":7,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Strangeness neutrality and the QCD phase diagram","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2019-07-18T17:39:39+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Strangeness neutrality imposes a constraint linking baryon-strangeness correlations to the QCD equation of state, with their dependence on freeze-out conditions computed in a 2+1 flavor Polyakov-quark-meson model using the functional renormalization group.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"1907.03990","ref_index":42,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Effect of anomalous magnetic moment of quarks on the phase structure and mesonic properties in the NJL model","primary_cat":"nucl-th","submitted_at":"2019-07-09T05:30:43+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"In the two-flavor NJL model with anomalous magnetic moment of quarks, external magnetic field produces inverse magnetic catalysis and a magnetic-field-dependent drop in the Mott temperature for the Goldstone mode.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null}],"limit":50,"offset":0}