Probing the hadron-quark mixed phase at high isospin and baryon density - Sensitive observables

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We discuss the isospin effect on the possible phase transition from hadronic to quark matter at high baryon density and finite temperatures.

• The two-Equation of State (Two-EoS) model is adopted to describe the hadron-quark phase transition in dense matter formed in heavy-ion collisions.
• For the hadron sector we use Relativistic Mean Field (RMF) effective models, already tested on heavy ion collision (HIC).
• For the quark phase we consider various effective models, the MIT-Bag static picture, the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (NJL) approach with chiral dynamics and finally the NJL coupled to the Polyakov-loop field (PNJL), which includes both chiral and (de)confinement dynamics.