Probing the QCD critical point with relativistic heavy-ion collisions

• Authors: Steffen Bass , Hannah Petersen , Cory Quammen , Hal Canary , Christopher Healey , Russell Taylor
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We utilize an event-by-event relativistic hydrodynamic calculation performed at a number of different incident beam energies to investigate the creation of hot and dense QCD matter near the critical point. Using state-of-the-art analysis and visualization tools we demonstrate that each collision event probes QCD matter characterized by a wide range of temperatures and baryo-chemical potentials, making a dynamical response of the system to the vicinity of the critical point very difficult to isolate above the background.

Keywords

EN

QCD critical point; relativistic heavy-ion collisions; event-by-event hydrodynamics

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1278-1281

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2012

online

4 - 12 - 2012

Contributors

author

Steffen Bass

• Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708-0305, USA

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Hannah Petersen

• Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708-0305, USA

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Cory Quammen

• Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3175, USA

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Hal Canary

• Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3175, USA

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Christopher Healey

• Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695-8206, USA

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Russell Taylor

• Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3175, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-012-0076-1