“…While Lattice QCD (LQCD) provides the most direct approach for studying high-temperature systems [1,2], it is plagued by the familiar fermion sign-problem [3,4,5,6,7,8,9] at non-vanishing baryo-chemical potentials. Effective Lagrangian models [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31], on the other hand, provide a much more tractable alternative to the study of non-perturbative, strongly-interacting matter. Following this approach, in Ref.…”