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Chiral crossover in QCD at zero and non-zero chemical potentials

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2020-08-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present results for pseudo-critical temperatures of QCD chiral crossovers at zero and non-zero values of baryon (BB), strangeness (SS), electric charge (QQ), and isospin (II) chemical potentials μX=B,Q,S,I\mu_{X=B,Q,S,I}. 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 Tc(μX)=Tc(0)[1κ2X(μX/Tc(0))2κ4X(μX/Tc(0))4] T_c(\mu_X) = T_c(0) \left[ 1 -\kappa_2^{X}(\mu_{X}/T_c(0))^2 -\kappa_4^{X}(\mu_{X}/T_c(0))^4 \right] , we determined κ2X\kappa_2^X and κ4X\kappa_4^X from Taylor expansions of chiral observables in μX\mu_X. We obtained a precise result for Tc(0)=(156.5±1.5)  MeVT_c(0)=(156.5\pm1.5)\;\mathrm{MeV}. For analogous thermal conditions at the chemical freeze-out of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, i.e., μS(T,μB)\mu_{S}(T,\mu_{B}) and μQ(T,μB)\mu_{Q}(T,\mu_{B}) fixed from strangeness-neutrality and isospin-imbalance, we found κ2B=0.012(4)\kappa_2^B=0.012(4) and κ4B=0.000(4)\kappa_4^B=0.000(4). For μB300  MeV\mu_{B}\lesssim300\;\mathrm{MeV}, the chemical freeze-out takes place in the vicinity of the QCD phase boundary, which coincides with the lines of constant energy density of 0.42(6)  GeV/fm30.42(6)\;\mathrm{GeV/fm}^3 and constant entropy density of 3.7(5)  fm33.7(5)\;\mathrm{fm}^{-3}.

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@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}
}
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