Probing the QGP Phase Boundary with Thermal Properties of $\phi$ Mesons
Nuclear Experiment
2011-10-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
A novel attempt has been made to probe the QCD phase boundary by using the experimental data for transverse momenta of {\phi} mesons produced in nuclear collisions at AGS, SPS and RHIC energies. The data are confronted with simple thermodynamic expectations and lattice QCD results. The experimental data indicate a first-order phase transition, with a mixed phase stretching the energy density between \sim1 and 3.2 GeV/fm3 corresponding to SPS energies.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1007.4335,
title = {Probing the QGP Phase Boundary with Thermal Properties of $\phi$ Mesons},
author = {Raghunath Sahoo and Tapan K. Nayak and Jan-e Alam and Basanta K. Nandi and Sonja Kabana},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.4335},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
8-pages, 3-figs, Replaced with the published version