Current research interests: Properties of mesons in chiral models; Properties of matter under extreme conditions: - Study of the restoration of chiral and axial symmetries at finite temperature and density within the Nambu−Jona-Lasinio type models (NJL) and its implications on several thermodynamic quantities and on meson properties; - Study of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter; - Analysis of the structure of the QCD phase diagram in the presence of an external magnetic field; - Combination of lattice calculations and effective field theory techniques to investigate the behavior of strongly interacting matter.

Research Highlights

Scalar-pseudoscalar meson behavior and restoration of symmetries in SU(3) PNJL model
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, C. A. de Sousa, H. Hansen, W.M. Alberico
Phys. Rev. D 79, 116003-116027 (2009)
The QCD critical end point in the PNJL model
Pedro Costa, C.A. de Sousa, M.C. Ruivo, H. Hansen
Europhys. Lett. 86, 31001 (2009)
Thermodynamics and critical behavior in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model of QCD
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, C.A. de Sousa
Phys. Rev. D 77, 096001-14 (2008)
Deconfinement and chiral restoration within the SU(3) Polyakov--Nambu--Jona-Lasinio and entangled Polyakov--Nambu--Jona-Lasinio models in an external magnetic field
Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa, Débora P. Menezes, Constança Providência, Norberto Scoccola
Phys. Rev. D 89, 019902-11 (2014)
Inverse magnetic catalysis in the (2+1)-flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio and Polyakov--Nambu--Jona-Lasinio models
M. Ferreira, P. Costa, O. Lourenço, T. Frederico, C. Providência
Phys. Rev. D 89, 116011-9 (2014)

Publications [LaTeX]

Books

Edited

1 - The QCD Phase Diagram in Strong Magnetic Fields
Pedro Costa, Débora Peres Menezes, Vladimir Skokov and Carsten Urbach
Eur. Phys. J. A, Topical Issue: The QCD Phase Diagram in Strong Magnetic Fields (2021)

Papers

International Journals

2 - Dual-function starch aerogels: Nutraceutical carriers for iron and folic acid delivery
G Clare, P Simoes, BFO Costa, L Duraes
J. Drug Deliv. Sci. Technol. 100, 106069 (2024)

3 - Building models of quarks and gluons with an arbitrary number of colors using Cartan-Polyakov loops
Renan Câmara Pereira and Pedro Costa,
Nucl. Phys. B 998, 116415-24 (2024)

4 - A new approach to the 3-momentum regularization of the in-medium one and two fermion line integrals with applications to cross sections in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model
Renan Câmara Pereira, Pedro Costa, Constança Providência, João Moreira
Phys. Rev. C 109, 025206-57 (2024)

5 - Temperature and strong magnetic field effects in dense matter
J. Peterson, P. Costa, R. Kumar, V. Dexheimer, R. Negreiros, C. Providência
Phys. Rev. D 108, 063011-18 (2023)

6 - Topical issue on the QCD phase diagram in strong magnetic fields
P. Costa, D.P. Menezes, V. Skokov, C. Urbach
Eur. Phys. J. A 58(10), 204 (2022)

7 - Editorial: Topical issue on the QCD phase diagram in strong magnetic fields
P. Costa, D. Peres Menezes, V. Skokov and C. Urbach
Eur. Phys. J. A 58, 204 (2022)

8 - Phase diagram for strongly interacting matter in the presence of a magnetic field using the Polyakov–Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model with magnetic field dependent coupling strengths
João Moreira, Pedro Costa, Tulio E. Restrepo,
Eur. Phys. J. A 57, 123-10 (2021)

9 - Quark and Polyakov-loop correlations in effective models at zero and nonvanishing density
Hubert Hansen, Rainer Stiele, and Pedro Costa
Phys. Rev. D 101, 094001-18 (2020)

10 - Magnetic field dependent ’t Hooft determinant extended Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model
João Moreira, Pedro Costa, and Tulio E. Restrepo
Phys. Rev. D 102, 014032-10 (2020)

11 - Role of the conserved charges in the chiral symmetry restoration phase transition
Pedro Costa, Renan Câmara Pereira, and Constança Providência.
Phys. Rev. D 102, 054010-8 (2020)

12 - The strange critical endpoint and isentropic trajectories in an Extended PNJL Model with Eight Quark Interactions
Renan Câmara Pereira, João Moreira and Pedro Costa
Eur. Phys. J. A (Invited contribution to the Topical Issue on "Theory of hot matter and relativistic heavy-ion collisions"- THOR) 56, 214-12 (2020)

13 - Functional renormalization group study of the critical region of the quark-meson model with vector interactions
Renan Câmara Pereira, Rainer Stiele, Pedro Costa
Eur.Phys.J. C 80, 712-16 (2020)

14 - One-meson-loop NJL model: Effect of collective and noncollective excitations on the quark condensate at finite temperature
Renan Câmara Pereira, and Pedro Costa
Phys. Rev. D 101, 054025-17 (2020)

15 - Phase Diagram, Scalar-Pseudoscalar Meson Behavior and Restoration of Symmetries in (2+1) Polyakov-Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model
Pedro Costa, Renan Câmara Pereira
Symmetry (Invited Article for the Special Issue "Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and its applications") 11 no. 4, 507-538 (2019)

16 - Presence of a critical endpoint in the QCD phase diagram from the net-baryon number fluctuations
Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa, Constança Providência
Phys. Rev. D 98, 034006 (2018)

17 - Multiple critical end points in magnetized three flavor quark matter
Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa, Constança Providência
Phys. Rev. D 97, 014014-11 (2018)

18 - Net baryon-number fluctuations in magnetized quark matter
Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa, and Constança Providência
Phys. Rev. D 98, 034003 (2018)

19 - Influence of the vector interaction and an external magnetic field on the isentropes near the chiral critical end point
Pedro Costa
Phys. Rev. D 93, 114035-10 (2016)

20 - Isentropic thermodynamics and scalar mesons properties near the QCD critical end point
Pedro Costa
European Physical Journal A (invited contribution to the Topical Issue on "The NICA White Paper") 52-8, 228-6 (2016)

21 - Two-solar-mass hybrid stars: a two model description with the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio quark model
Renan Câmara Pereira, Pedro Costa, Constança Providência
Phys. Rev. D 94, 094001-16 (2016)

22 - Sensitivity of predictions in an eﬀective model: Application to the chiral critical end point position in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model
Alexandre Biguet, Hubert Hansen, Timothée Brugière, Pedro Costa, Pierre Borgnat
European Physical Journal A 51-9, 121-19 (2015)

23 - Influence of the inverse magnetic catalysis and the vector interaction in the location of the critical end point
Pedro Costa, Márcio Ferreira, Débora P. Menezes, João Moreira, and Constança Providência
Phys. Rev. D 92, 036012-12 (2015)

24 - Dynamic and structural properties of orthorhombic rare-earth manganites under high pressure
D. A. Mota, A. Almeida, V. H. Rodrigues, M. M. R. Costa, P. Tavares, P. Bouvier, M. Guennou, J. Kreisel,and J. Agostinho Moreira
Phys. Rev. B 90, 054104-1-054104-10 (2014)

25 - Repulsive vector interaction in three-flavor magnetized quark and stellar matter
Débora P. Menezes, Marcus B. Pinto, Luis B. Castro, Pedro Costa, Constança Providência
Phys. Rev. C. 89, 055207-13 (2014)

26 - Inverse magnetic catalysis in the (2+1)-flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio and Polyakov--Nambu--Jona-Lasinio models
M. Ferreira, P. Costa, O. Lourenço, T. Frederico, C. Providência
Phys. Rev. D 89, 116011-9 (2014)

27 - Deconfinement and chiral restoration within the SU(3) Polyakov--Nambu--Jona-Lasinio and entangled Polyakov--Nambu--Jona-Lasinio models in an external magnetic field
Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa, Débora P. Menezes, Constança Providência, Norberto Scoccola
Phys. Rev. D 89, 019902-11 (2014)

28 - Deconﬁnement, chiral symmetry restoration and thermodynamics of the (2+1)–ﬂavor hot QCD matter in an external magnetic ﬁeld
Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa, and Constança Providência
Phys. Rev. D 89, 036006-10 (2014)

29 - Strange quark chiral phase transition in a hot 2+1-ﬂavor magnetized quark matter
Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa, and Constança Providência
Phys. Rev. D 90, 016012-12 (2014)

30 - Phase transition and critical end point driven by an external magnetic field in asymmetric quark matter
Pedro Costa, Márcio Ferreira, Hubert Hansen, Débora P. Menezes, Constança Providência
Phys. Rev. D 89, 056013-7 (2014)

31 - Falling chains as variable mass systems: theoretical model and experimental analysis
Célia A. de Sousa, Paulo M. Gordo and Pedro Costa
Eur. J. Phys. 33, 1007-1020 (2012)

32 - D mesons at ﬁnite temperature and density in the PNJL model
D. Blaschke, Pedro Costa, Yu.L. Kalinovsky
Phys. Rev. D 85, 034005-7 (2012)

33 - Effects of entanglement and instanton suppression at ﬁnite temperature in a SU(2) EPNJL model with anomaly
M. C. Ruivo, P. Costa, C. A. de Sousa
Phys. Rev. D 86, 116007-9 (2012)

34 - Interplay between chiral and axial symmetries in a SU(2) Nambu--Jona-Lasinio Model with the Polyakov loop
M. C. Ruivo, M. C. Santos, Pedro Costa and C. A. de Sousa
Phys. Rev. D 85, 036001-10 (2012)

35 - What Does Low Energy Physics Tell Us About The Zero Momentum Gluon Propagator
Pedro Costa, O. Oliveira, P. J. Silva
Phys. Lett. B 695, 454-458 (2011)

36 - How parameters and regularization affect the PNJL model phase diagram and thermodynamic quantities
Pedro Costa, H. Hansen, M. C. Ruivo, C. A. Sousa
Phys. Rev. D 81, 016007-13 (2010)

37 - Phase Diagram and Critical Properties within an Effective Model of QCD: The Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model Coupled to the Polyakov Loop
Pedro Costa, Maria C. Ruivo, Célia A. de Sousa and Hubert Hansen
Symmetry (Special Issue Symmetry Breaking Phenomena) 2(3), 1338-1374 (2010)

38 - Scalar-pseudoscalar meson behavior and restoration of symmetries in SU(3) PNJL model
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, C. A. de Sousa, H. Hansen, W.M. Alberico
Phys. Rev. D 79, 116003-116027 (2009)

39 - The QCD critical end point in the PNJL model
Pedro Costa, C.A. de Sousa, M.C. Ruivo, H. Hansen
Europhys. Lett. 86, 31001 (2009)

40 - Effects of the Regularization on the Restoration of Chiral and Axial Symmetries
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, C. A. de Sousa
Phys. Rev D 77, 096009-7 (2008)

41 - Thermodynamics and critical behavior in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model of QCD
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, C.A. de Sousa
Phys. Rev. D 77, 096001-14 (2008)

42 - Behavior of the topological susceptibility at finite T and $mu$ and signs of restoration of chiral symmetries
M. C. Ruivo, Pedro Costa, C. A. de Sousa
European Physical Journal A 4, 766-768 (2007)

43 - The QCD critical end point in the SU(3) Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model
P. Costa, C. A. de Sousa, M. C. Ruivo, Yu. L. Kalinovsky
Physics Letters B 647, 431-435 (2007)

44 - Phase transitions in quark matter and behaviour of physical observables in the vicinity of the critical end point
P. Costa, C. A. de Sousa, M. C. Ruivo, Yu. L. Kalinovsky
European Physical Journal A 4, 842-844 (2007)

45 - Effective restoration of chiral and axial symmetries at finite temperature and density
M. C. Ruivo, P. Costa, C. A. de Sousa, Yu. L. Kalinovsky
J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 31, S1183 (2005)

46 - Analysis of the UA1 symmetry breaking and restoration effects on scalar-pseudoscalar meson septrum
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, C. A. de Sousa and Yu. L. Kalinovsky
Phys. Rev. D 71, 116002-18 (2005)

47 - Two photon decay of pion and eta at finite temperature and density
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, and Yu. Kalinovsky
J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 31, S1171 (2005)

48 - Effective restoration of the UA(1) symmetry with temperature and density
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, C. A. de Sousa, and Yu. Kalinovsky
Phys. Rev. D 70, 116013-5 (2004)

49 - Pseudoscalar Mesons in Hot and Dense Matter
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, Yu. Kalinovsky and C. A. de Sousa
Phys. Rev. C 70, 025204-13 (2004)

50 - Anomalous decay of pion and eta at finite temperature
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, and Yu. Kalinovsky
Phys. Rev. C 70, 048202 (2004)

51 - Anomalous decay of pion and eta at finite density
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo and Yu. L. Kalinovsky
Phys. Lett. B 577, 129-136 (2003)

52 - Pseudoscalar neutral mesons in hot and dense matter
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo and Yu. L. Kalinovsky
Phys. Lett. B 560, 171-177 (2003)

53 - Kaon and pions in strange quark matter
P. Costa and M. C. Ruivo
Europhys. Lett 60 (3), 356-362 (2002)

Proceedings

International Conferences

54 - Exploration of the phase diagram and the thermodynamic properties of QCD at finite temperature and chemical potential with the PNJL effective model
M. Motta, W. M. Alberico, A. Beraudo, P. Costa, R. Stiele
Contribution to the proceedings of the FAIR next generation scientists - 6th Edition Workshop, J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 1667, 012029 (2020)

55 - Aspects of isentropic trajectories in chiral effective models
Rainer Stiele, Wanda Maria Alberico, Andrea Beraudo, Renan Câmara Pereira, Pedro Costa, Hubert Hansen, Mario Motta
Contribution to the proceedings of the FAIR next generation scientists - 6th Edition Workshop, J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 1667, 012043 (2020)

56 - Magnetized QCD Phase Diagram: Net-baryon Susceptibilities
Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa, Constança Providência
Acta Physica Polonica B Proceedings Supplement 11 no.3, 441-445 (2018)

57 - Magnetized QCD phase diagram: critical end points for the strange quark phase transition driven by external magnetic fields
Pedro Costa, Márcio Ferreira, Constança Providência
PoS Hadron2017 (proceedings of Hadron 2017 - XVII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy and Structure, September 25th-29th 2017, Salamanca, Spain) 161, 161 (2018)

58 - Magnetized QCD Phase Diagram
Pedro Costa, Márcio Ferreira, Constança Providência
Acta Physica Polonica B Proceedings Supplement 10 no.4, 1197-1202 (2017)

59 - Inverse magnetic catalysis in the Polyakov-Nambu-Jona-Lasinio and entangled Polyakov-Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models
Constança Providência, Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa
Acta Physica Polonica B Proceedings Supplement 8 no.1, 207-212 (2015)

60 - Quark matter subject to strong magnetic fields: phase diagram and applications
DP Menezes, MB Pinto, C Providencia, P. Costa, M Ferreira, LB Castro
Journal of Physics Conference Series 630, 012026 (2015)

61 - The QCD critical end point driven by an external magnetic field in asymmetric quark matter
Pedro Costa, Márcio Ferreira, Constança Providência, Hubert Hansen, and Débora P. Menezes
Proceedings of the "20th Particles and Nuclei International Conference (PANIC 14)" (Eds. C. Sander and A. Schmidt, DESY-PROC-2014-04, Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg), 255-258 (2015)

62 - Quark matter subject to strong magnetic fields: phase diagram and applications
Débora P. Menezes, Marcus B. Pinto, Constança Providência, Pedro Costa, Márcio Ferreira, Luis B. Castro
Proceedings of the "XXXVII Brazilian Meeting on Nuclear Physics (XXXVII RTFNB)", Maresias, SP, Brazil, 8-12 September 2014 (2014)

63 - The QCD phase diagram in the presence of an external magnetic ﬁeld: the role of the inverse magnetic catalysis
M. Ferreira, P. Costa, C. Providência
Proceedings of "New Trends in High Energy Physics and QCD" October 21 - November 6, 2014 (2014)

64 - Inverse Magnetic Catalysis in hot quark matter within (P)NJL models
M. Ferreira, P. Costa, C. Providência, O. Lourenço, T. Frederico
Proceedings of the "Compact Stars in the QCD Phase Diagram IV (CSQCD IV)", September 26-30, 2014, Prerow, Germany (2014)

65 - Restoration of axial symmetry and its possible relations with restoration of chiral symmetry and deconfinement at finite temperature
M. C. Ruivo, P. Costa and C. A. de Sousa
Acta Physica Polonica B Proceedings Supplement 6 no.3, 917-922 (2013)

66 - Some properties of two Nambu-Jona-Lasinio -type models with inputs from lattice QCD
P. Costa, C. A. de Sousa, M. C. Ruivo, O. Oliveira, P. J. Silva, and H. Hansen
Acta Physica Polonica B Proceedings Supplement 5 no.4, 1083-1088 (2012)

67 - The QCD Critical End Point in the Context of the PolyakovNambuJona-Lasinio Model
P. Costa, M.C. Ruivo, C. A. de Sousa, and H. Hansen
Acta Physica Polonica B Proceedings Supplement 5 no. 2, 523-528 (2012)

68 - Phase Diagram and Critical Properties in the PNJL Model
Célia A. de Sousa, P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo and H. Hansen
Procceedings of the International Conference on Quark Confinement IX, Madrid 2010, AIP Conf. Proc (Eds. F. J. Llanes-Estrada and J. R. Peláez) 1343, 592 (2011)

69 - What does low energy physics tell us about the zero momentum gluon propagator?
P. Costa, O. Oliveira, P. J. Silva
AIP Conf. Proc. 1343, 617 (2011)

70 - Exploring the role of model parameters and regularization procedures in the thermodynamics of the PNJL model
M. C. Ruivo, P. Costa, H. Hansen, C. A de Sousa,
Hadron 2009: Proceedings of the XII Internacional Conferende on Hadron Spectroscopy, AIP Conference Proceedings (Volker Crede, Paul Eugenio and O.Ostrovidov, Eds) 1257, 681-685 (2010)

71 - How the Polyakov loop and the regularization affect strangeness and restoration of symmetries at finite T
M. C. Ruivo, P. Costa, C. A de Sousa, H. Hansen and W. Alberico
Hadron 2009: Proceedings of the XII Internacional Conferende on Hadron Spectroscopy, AIP Conference Proceedings (Volker Crede, Paul Eugenio and O.Ostrovidov, Eds) 1257, 770-769 (2010)

72 - Scalar-pseudoscalar meson spectrum in SU(3) PNJL model
Pedro Costa, M.C. Ruivo, C. A. de Sousa, H. Hansen and W.M. Alberico
PoS(Confinement8) 086, Proceedings of the Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VIII: 8th Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Mainz, Germany, 1-6 Sep 2008. (2008)

73 - Phase structure, critical points and susceptibilities in Nambu-Jona-Lasinio type models,
C. A. de Sousa, P. Costa and M. C. Ruivo
Hadron07: XII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, Frascati Physics series, L. Benussi ed al (Eds.) Vol XLVI, 767 (2007)

74 - Behavior of the topological susceptibility at finite T and $mu$ and signs of restoration of chiral symmetries
M. C. Ruivo, P. Costa, C. A. de Sousa
IVth International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics (QNP06), A. Dobado, F. J. Llanes-Estrada and V. Vento (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 465-467 (2007)

75 - Phase transitions in quark matter and behaviour of physical observables in the vicinity of the critical end point
P. Costa, C. A. de Sousa, M. C. Ruivo, Yu. L. Kalinovsky
IVth International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics (QNP06), A. Dobado, F. J. Llanes-Estrada and V. Vento (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 553-555 (2007)

76 - Behavior of physical observables in the vicinity of the QCD critical end point.
Pedro Costa
Proceedings of the Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VII, Eds. J.E. Ribeiro et al., AIP Conf. Proc., New York 892, 255 (2007)

77 - Phase transitions and behavior of kaons in hot and dense matter,
C. A. de Sousa, P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, Yu. L. Kalinovsky
Proceedings of the Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VI, Eds. N. Brambilla et al., AIP Conf. Proc., New York 756, 348 (2005)

78 - Effects of the restoration of UA(1) symmetry on pseudoscalar meson observable
M. C. Ruivo, Pedro Costa, C. A. de Sousa, Yu. L. Kalinovsky
PoS(HEP2005), 109 (2005)

79 - Is the UA(1) symmetry restored at finite temperature or density?
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, C. A. de Sousa, and Yu. Kalinovsky
Proceedings of the Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VI, Eds. N. Brambilla et al., AIP Conf. Proc. New York 756, 351 (2005)

80 - The restoration of the UA(1) symmetry and the meson spectrum in hot or dense matter
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, C. A. de Sousa, and Yu. L. Kalinovsky
Proceedings of Hadronic Physics: Joint Meeting Heidelberg-Liège-Paris-Rostock; HLPR 2004, Eds. J. P. Lansberg et al., Aip Conf. Proc., New York 775, 173 (2005)

81 - eta and eta´ in a Hot and Dense Medium
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo and Yu. L. Kalinovsky
Hadron Physics- Effective Theories of QCD, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Hadron Physics, A. H. Blin, B. Hiller, A. Osipov,M. C. Ruivo, E. van Beveren, Coimbra, AIP 660, 242-255 (2003)

82 - Pseudoscalar meson in asymmetric media
M. C. Ruivo, P. Costa and C. A de Sousa
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Quark Matter in Astro and Particle Physics Eds. G. Burau, D. Blaschke and S. Schmidt, University of Rostock, 218 (2001)

Communications

Invited

83 - Hadrons and Fundamental Interactions at CFisUC
Pedro Costa
Invited Talk at the ‘NuPECC (the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee) Meetings’, Lisboa – Portugal, 16-17 of June 2017. (2017)

84 - Restoration of axial symmetry and possible relations with restoration of axial symmetry and deconfinement at finite temperature
M. C. Ruivo, P. Costa and C. A. de Sousa
International Workshop on Excited QCD 2013, Bjelasnica Mountain, Bosnia, February (2013)

85 - Study of hydrogen in Hf7Ni10 combined with TiV0.8Cr1.2 by PAC
J.M. Gil, B.F.O. Costa, P. de Rango, D. Fruchart*, S. Miraglia, N.E. Skryabina
(2010)

86 - Pseudoscalar mesons in asymmetric media
M. C. Ruivo, P. Costa and C. A. de Sousa
International Workshop on Quark Matter in Astro and Particle Physics, University of Rostock, Germany, 2001. (2001)

Oral

87 - Magnetized QCD phase diagram
Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa, Constança Providência
Talk at "YITP long-term workshop on New Frontiers in QCD 2018 - Confinement, Phase Transition, Hadrons, and Hadron Interactions”, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Japan, May 28 - June 29 (2018)

88 - QCD phase diagram and magnetic fields
Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa, and Constança Providência
Talk given at "Excited QCD 2018", Kopaonik - Serbia, 11-15 of March (2018)

89 - QCD phase diagram and magnetic fields,
Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa, Constança Providência
Talk given at "Excited QCD 2017", Sintra, Portugal, 7-13 May (2017)

90 - Magnetized QCD phase diagram
Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa, Constança Providência
Talk at "1st AFIF meating", Coimbra, Portugal, 14 July (2017)

91 - Magnetized QCD phase diagram within the PNJL model
Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa, Constança Providência
Talk at "Zimanyi School for heavy ion physics", Wigner Research Center for Physics, Budapest, Hungary, 4-8 December (2017)

92 - Magnetized QCD phase diagram
Pedro Costa, Márcio Ferreira, Constança Providência
Talk given at "HADRON 2017 - XVII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy and Structure", Salamanca – Spain, 24-29 of September (2017)

93 - Magnetized QCD phase diagram
Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa and Constança Providência
Talk given at YITP Long-term workshop on "Nuclear Physics, Compact Stars, and Compact Star Mergers 2016 17 October - 18 November, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Japan (2016)

94 - Inverse magnetic catalysis in the Polyakov-Nambu-Jona-Lasinio and entangled Polyakov-Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models
Constança Providência, Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa
Talk given at "EEF70 - Workshop on Unquenched Hadron Spectroscopy: Non-Perturbative Models and Methods of QCD vs. Experiment", Coimbra, Portugal, September 1-5, 2014 (2014)

95 - Inverse Magnetic Catalysis in hot quark matter within (P)NJL models
M. Ferreira, P. Costa, C. Providência, O. Lourenço, T. Frederico
Talk given at the Conference "Compact Stars in the QCD Phase Diagram IV (CSQCD IV)", September 26-30, 2014, Prerow, Germany (2014)

96 - Inverse Magnetic Catalysis in (P)NJL models
Márcio Ferreira Pedro Costa, Constança Providência, Débora P. Menezes, Tobias Frederico, Odilon Lourenço
Talk given at "New Trends in High Energy Physics and QCD" October 21 - November 6, 2014, NATAL, BRAZIL (2014)

97 - The QCD critical end point driven by an external magnetic field in asymmetric quark matter
Pedro Costa, Márcio Ferreira, Constança Providência, Hubert Hansen, Débora P. Menezes
Talk given at PANIC 2014 Particles and Nuclei International Conference, Hamburgo Alemanha, 25 a 29 de Agosto (2014)

98 - Restoration of axial symmetry and its possible relations with restoration of chiral symmetry and deconfinement at finite temperature
M. C. Ruivo, P. Costa and C. A. de Sousa
Talk given at the Exited QCD 2013, 3-9 February, Bjelasnica, Sarajevo - Bosnia (2013)

99 - The QCD Critical End Point in the Context Context of the PolyakovNambuJona-Lasinio Model
P. Costa, C.A. de Sousa, M.C. Ruivo, O. Oliveira, P. J. Silva and H. Hansen
Talk given at the Exited QCD 2012, 6-12 May, Peniche Portugal (2012)

100 - Modeling Chiral and Deconfinement Transitions in the Context of the Polyakov--Nambu--Jona-Lasinio Model
P. Costa, C. A. de Sousa, M. C. Ruivo, H. Hansen,
Talk given at the SQM 2011 Strangeness in Quark Matter, 18-24 September, Krakow, Poland (2011)

101 - Phase Diagram and Critical Properties in the PNJL Model
Célia A. de Sousa, P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo and H. Hansen
Talk given at the International Conference on Quark Confinement IX, Madrid, 30/08 to 3/09 (2010)

102 - How the Polyakov loop and regularization procedures affect the behavior of strange quark matter and restoration of symmetries at finite T
M. C. Ruivo, P. Costa, C. A. de Sousa, H. Hansen and W. Alberico
Talk given at the XII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, 29 November - 4 December, Tallahassee, Florida, USA (2009)

103 - Exploring the role of model parameters and regularization procedures in the thermodynamics of the PNJL model
M. C. Ruivo, P. Costa, H. Hansen and C. A. de Sousa
Talk given at the XII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, 29 November - 4 December, Tallahassee, Florida, USA (2009)

104 - Scalar-pseudoscalar meson spectrum in SU(3) PNJL model
Pedro Costa. M. C. Ruivo, C. A. de Sousa, H. Hansen and W.M. Alberico
Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VIII: 8th Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Mainz, Germany, 1-6 September (2008)

105 - Phase structure, critical points and susceptibilities in Nambu-Jona-Lasinio type models
C. A. de Sousa, Pedro Costa, and M. C. Ruivo
Talk given at 12th International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy (Hadron 07), Frascati, Italy, 8-13 October (2007)

106 - Behavior of the topological susceptibility at finite T and $mu$ and signs of restoration of chiral symmetries
M. C. Ruivo, Pedro Costa, C. A. de Sousa
IVth International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics (QNP06), Madrid, Spain (2006)

107 - Behavior of physical observables in the vicinity of the QCD critical end point
Pedro Costa
International Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VII, Açores, Portugal (2006)

108 - Phase transitions in quark matter and behaviour of physical observables in the vicinity of the critical end point
Pedro Costa, C. A. de Sousa, M. C. Ruivo, Yu. L. Kalinovsky
IVth International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics (QNP06), Madrid, Spain (2006)

109 - Effects of the restoration of UA(1) symmetry on meson observables
M. C. Ruivo, P. Costa, C. A. de Sousa and Yu. L. Kalinovsky
International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Lisbon Portugal, 21.27 July (2005)

110 - Phase transitions and behavior of kaons in hot and dense matter
C. A. de Sousa, P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, Yu. L. Kalinovsky
Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VI 2004, Villasimios, Cagliari Italy (2004)

111 - Effective restoration of chiral and axial symmetries at finite temperature and density
M. C. Ruivo, P. Costa, C. A. de Sousa, Yu. L. Kalinovsky
VIII International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, Cape Town, South Africa (2004)

112 - Two photon decay of pion and eta at finite temperature and density
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, and Yu. Kalinovsky
VIII International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, Cape Town, South Africa (2004)

113 - Is the UA(1) symmetry restored at finite temperature or density?
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, C. A. de Sousa, and Yu. Kalinovsky
Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VI 2004, Villasimios, Cagliari Italy (2004)

114 - The restoration of the UA(1) symmetry and the meson spectrum in hot or dense matter
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, C. A. de Sousa, and Yu. L. Kalinovsky
Three Days of Hadronic Physics, Sol Cress, Spa - Belgium (2004)

115 - J/psi dissociation at finite temperature/density
Yu. L. Kalinovsky, P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo, C. A. de Sousa, and J. Cugnon
Three Days of Hadronic Physics´, Sol Cress, Spa - Belgium, 16 18 December (2004)

116 - Eta and eta in a hot and dense medium
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo and Yu. L. Kalinovsky
II International Workshop on Hadron Physics - Effective Theories of Low Energy QCD, Coimbra, Portugal (2002)

117 - “Study of Hf7Ni10 hydride by PAC- ChapterII
79001, J.M. Gil, B.F.O. Costa, P. de Rango, D. Fruchart, S. Miraglia, N.E. Skryabina
14th Workshop on Magnetism and Intermetallics, Coimbra, Portugal, Fevereiro de 2008, (livro de resumos, pp. E6). (0)

Poster

118 - SU(2)_f NJL model with Meson Loops: The Gap Equation at Finite Temperature
Renan Pereira, Pedro Costa, Constança Providência
New Frontiers in QCD 2018, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto – Japan, 30 of May to 29 of June (2018)

119 - Magnetized QCD phase diagram
Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa and Constança Providência
Ciência 2016 4-6 July, Lisbon, Portugal (2016)

120 - Characterization of two different iron meteorites
.F.O. Costa, P.C. Silva, G. Klingelhoefer, E.I. Alves
ICAME 2015, 33rd International Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect, Hamburg, Alemanha, setembro, (livro de resumos, pp. 297). (2015)

121 - Mössbauer spectroscopy studies on supersaturated FeCoSn solid solutions and their ordering by annealing
B. Malaman, G. Le Caër, B.F.O. Costa, P.M. Gordo, A. Ramalho
Colloquim Spectroscopicum International XXXIX (2015)

122 - The Critical End Point under an external magnetic field
Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa, and Constança Providência
Dense Matter in Compact Stars: Experimental and Observational Signatures 21-25 September, Bucharest, Romania (2015)

123 - Experimenta! Hands-on showroom for high school students
V. Chepel, R. A. Coimbra, P. Costa,
‘HOPE annual forum 2015’, Coimbra – Portugal, 9-12 september. (2015)

124 - Inverse Magnetic Catalysis within (P)NJL models
M. Ferreira, P. Costa, C. Providência, O. Lourenço, and T. Frederico
Helmholtz International Summer School "Lattice QCD, Hadron Structure and Hadronic Matter", August 25 to September 6, 2014, JINR, Dubna, Russia (2014)

125 - Chiral and deconfinement phase transitions under an external magnetic field within (E)PNJL models
Márcio Ferreira, Pedro Costa, and Constança Providência
"International workshop on nonperturbative phenomena in hadron and particle physics" May 5 to 10, 2014, Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil (2014)

126 - PAC study of hydrogen diffusion in Hf7Ni10 combined with TiV0.8Cr1.2
J. Gil, B. Costa, P. de Rango, D. Fruchart, S. Miraglia, N. Skryabina
, P-80, p. 58 (2010)

127 - PAC study of hydrogen diffusion in Hf7Ni10 combined with TiV0.8Cr1.2
J.M. Gil, B.F.O. Costa, P. de Rango, D. Fruchart, S. Miraglia, N.E. Skryabina
(2010)

128 - What does low energy physics tell us about the zero momentum gluon propagator?
P. Costa, O. Oliveira, P. J. Silva
Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum IX, Madrid Spain (2010)

129 - Two photon decay of pion and eta at finite temperature and density
P. Costa, M. C. Ruivo e Yu. Kalinovsky
Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VI 2004, Villasimios, Cagliari Italy (2004)

130 - Propriedades de Piões a Temperatura e Densidades Finitas
P. Costa, M.C. Ruivo e C. A. de Sousa,
Física 2000, Figueira da Foz Portugal (2000)

Thesis

PhD thesis

131 - Restauração de simetrias quirais em meios quentes e densos e suas manifestações em propriedades mesónicas
Pedro Fernando Simões Costa
FCTUC (2005)

MSc thesis

132 - Transições de Fase e Comportamento de Mesões Pseudoescalares em Matéria Assimétrica
Pedro Fernando Simões Costa
FCTUC (2001)

Other

133 - Charged pions and kaons weak leptonic decays at finite density
Pedro Costa, M.C. Ruivo and Yu.L. Kalinovsky
arXiv: hep-ph/0401175. (2004)

Thesis supervised

Quantum Chromodynamics phase diagram under extreme conditions
Renan Câmara Pereira
PhD thesis, (2021)
QCD phase diagram under an external magnetic field
Márcio Ferreira
PhD thesis, Supervisors: Constança Providência e Pedro Costa, PhD Thesis in Physics, Univ. Coimbra, 24/9 (2015)
Chiral Transition and Deconfinement in Hybrid Stars
Renan Câmara Pereira
MSc thesis, (2016)
Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model in SU(2)
David Fernandes
er, Internship Report (2016)