Chiral crossover in QCD at zero and non-zero chemical potentials
Abstract
We present results for pseudo-critical temperatures of QCD chiral crossovers at zero and non-zero values of baryon (), strangeness (), electric charge (), and isospin () chemical potentials . The results were obtained using lattice QCD calculations carried out with two degenerate up and down dynamical quarks and a dynamical strange quark, with quark masses corresponding to physical values of pion and kaon masses in the continuum limit. By parameterizing pseudo-critical temperatures as , we determined and from Taylor expansions of chiral observables in . We obtained a precise result for . For analogous thermal conditions at the chemical freeze-out of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, i.e., and fixed from strangeness-neutrality and isospin-imbalance, we found and . For , the chemical freeze-out takes place in the vicinity of the QCD phase boundary, which coincides with the lines of constant energy density of and constant entropy density of .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1812.08235,
title = {Chiral crossover in QCD at zero and non-zero chemical potentials},
author = {A. Bazavov and H. -T. Ding and P. Hegde and O. Kaczmarek and F. Karsch and N. Karthik and E. Laermann and Anirban Lahiri and R. Larsen and S. -T. Li and Swagato Mukherjee and H. Ohno and P. Petreczky and H. Sandmeyer and C. Schmidt and S. Sharma and P. Steinbrecher},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.08235},
year = {2020}
}