Kitazawa, Masakiyo Masakiyo Kitazawa TU Darmstadt 05n911h24 From lattice to observables: Real and virtual experiments for exploring hot and dense QCD [TeX + figures] TU Darmstadt 2022 309-01 Kern- und Elementarteilchenphysik, Quantenmechanik, Relativitätstheorie, Felder 309-01 Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Fields 530 TU Darmstadt 2022-10-11 2022-10-11 2022-10-03 en Text https://tudata-test.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/handle/tudatalib/2822 2210.00739 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Relativistic heavy-ion collisions and the lattice QCD Monte-Carlo simulations are important ``experimental'' tools for investigating the properties of the medium described by QCD under extreme conditions. After briefly examining their characteristics, I pick up the study of the critical points in QCD as an example of the research subjects that these two tools play complementary roles and discuss recent topics that have been achieved with the use of each tool.