Ripples of the QCD Critical Point

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Ripples of the QCD Critical Point
المؤلفون: Fu, Wei-jie, Luo, Xiaofeng, Pawlowski, Jan M., Rennecke, Fabian, Yin, Shi
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
مصطلحات موضوعية: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
الوصف: We investigate the impact of a critical end point (CEP) on the experimentally accessible baryon number fluctuations of different orders. By now, its potential location has been constrained fairly accurately within first principles functional QCD, together with the location of the chiral crossover line and further thermodynamic observables. This information is incorporated in an advanced QCD-assisted low energy effective theory which is used for the computation of baryon number fluctuations at the chemical freeze-out. This computation also takes care of global baryon number conservation at larger density, where the system changes from grand-canonical to canonical statistics. We observe a prominent peak structure, whose amplitude depends on the location of the CEP, while its position is more sensitive to the location of the freeze-out curve. Our results provide guidance for future low energy heavy-ion experiments.
Comment: v2: 7+11 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables. Discussions on Polyakov loop potential (S.1.1) and the state-of-the-art estimates and predictions of CEP (S.2) with three further figures are added
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15508
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2308.15508
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv