QCD phase diagram in nonlocal chiral quark models

DANIEL GOMEZ DUMM

Helsinki

Conferencia; 6th Conference on Strong and Electroweak Matter 2004 (SEWM04); 2004

The QCD phase diagram is analyzed within chiral quark models with nonlocal separable interactions. For the case of two light flavors, we describe in detail the characteristics of the chiral phase transition in the T-mu plane, and analyze the color superconducting phase transition taking place at relatively large chemical potentials. We also consider the three-flavor version of the models, analyzing the predictions for masses and decay constants of light pseudoscalar mesons.