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Dynamics of the chiral phase transition

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-04-14 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The intention of this study is the search for signatures of the chiral phase transition in heavy-ion collisions. To investigate the impact of fluctuations, e.g., of the baryon number, at the transition or at a critical point, the linear sigma model is treated in a dynamical (3+1)-dimensional numerical simulation. Chiral fields are approximated as classical mean fields, and quarks are described as quasi particles in a Vlasov equation. Additional dynamics is implemented by quark-quark and quark-sigma-field interactions. For a consistent description of field-particle interactions, a new Monte-Carlo-Langevin-like formalism has been developed and is discussed.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1311.6825,
  title  = {Dynamics of the chiral phase transition},
  author = {H. van Hees and C. Wesp and A. Meistrenko and C. Greiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.6825},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures; contribution to the proceedings of the "XXXI Max Born Symposium and HIC for FAIR Workshop", Wroclav, Poland, June 14-16, 2013

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