Probing the QCD Critical Point with Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Nuclear Theory
2017-11-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We utilize an event-by-event relativistic hydrodynamic calculation performed at a number of different incident beam energies to investigate the creation of hot and dense QCD matter near the critical point. Using state-of-the-art analysis and visualization tools we demonstrate that each collision event probes QCD matter characterized by a wide range of temperatures and baryo-chemical potentials, making a dynamical response of the system to the vicinity of the critical point very difficult to isolate above the background.
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@article{arxiv.1202.0076,
title = {Probing the QCD Critical Point with Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions},
author = {Steffen A. Bass and Hannah Petersen and Cory Quammen and Hal Canary and Christopher G. Healey and Russell M. Taylor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.0076},
year = {2017}
}
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CPOD 2011 Proceedings