Subject: New abstract for Rajagopal
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 08:56:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christopher Kolda <kolda@thsrv.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: Christopher Kolda <CFKolda@lbl.gov>
To: Mary Kihanya <MKihanya@lbl.gov>

Rajagopal sent me his own shorter abstract -- let's use that if you don't
mind. It is below.

                                Chris

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 I review recent theoretical developments which show how a key
 qualitative feature of the QCD phase diagram, namely a critical point
 which in a sense defines the landscape to be mapped in heavy ion collision
 experiments, can be discovered. I also review recent progress in our
 understanding of cold, dense quark matter, as may occur in the cores of
 neutron stars. In this regime, quarks form Cooper pairs and QCD describes
 a superconducting phase which may break chiral symmetry by locking
 flavor symmetries to color. Mapping this
 part of the QCD phase diagram will require a better understanding of how
 these phenomena affect neutron star phenomenology.
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