Finite-size effects and the search for the critical endpoint in heavy ion collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-02-24 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We discuss how the finiteness of the system created in a heavy-ion collision affects possible signatures of the QCD critical endpoint. We show sizable results for the modifications of the chiral phase diagram at volume scales typically encountered in current heavy-ion collisions and address the applicability of finite-size scaling as a tool in the experimental search for the critical endpoint.
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@article{arxiv.0910.4363,
title = {Finite-size effects and the search for the critical endpoint in heavy ion collisions},
author = {Leticia F. Palhares and Eduardo S. Fraga and Takeshi Kodama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4363},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
9 pages, 6 figures; talk given at the 5th International Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement (CPOD 2009), June 08 - 12, BNL, USA