Physics Letters B (May 2019)

Orientation dependence of confinement-deconfinement phase transition in anisotropic media

  • Irina Aref'eva,
  • Kristina Rannu,
  • Pavel Slepov

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 792
pp. 470 – 475

Abstract

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We study the T-μ phase diagram of anisotropic media, created in heavy-ion collisions (HIC). Such a statement of the problem is due to several indications that this media is anisotropic just after HIC. To study T-μ phase diagram we use holographic methods. To take into account the anisotropy we use an anisotropic black brane solutions for a bottom-up QCD approach in 5-dim Einstein-dilaton-two-Maxwell model constructed in our previous work. We calculate the minimal surfaces of the corresponding probing open string world-sheet in anisotropic backgrounds with various temperatures and chemical potentials. The dynamical wall (DW) locations, providing the quark confinement, depend on the orientation of the quark pairs, that gives a crossover transition between confinement/deconfinement phases in the dual gauge theory. Keywords: AdS/QCD, Holography, Phase transition