Has the QCD Critical Point been Signaled by Observations at RHIC ?
Nuclear Experiment
2008-11-26 v5
Abstract
The shear viscosity to entropy ratio () is estimated for the hot and dense QCD matter created in Au+Au collisions at RHIC ( GeV). A very low value is found , which is close to the conjectured lower bound (). It is argued that such a low value is indicative of thermodynamic trajectories for the decaying matter which lie close to the QCD critical end point.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0609025,
title = {Has the QCD Critical Point been Signaled by Observations at RHIC ?},
author = {Roy A. Lacey and N. N. Ajitanand and J. M. Alexander and P. Chung and W. G. Holzmann and M. Issah and A. Taranenko and P. Danielewicz and Horst Stocker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0609025},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures. Revised version, accepted for publication in PRL