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QCD Critical Point and High Baryon Density Matter

Nuclear Experiment 2021-01-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We report the latest results on the search for the QCD critical point in the QCD phase diagram through high energy heavy-ion collisions. The measurements discussed are based on the higher moments of the net-proton multiplicity distributions in heavy-ion collisions. A non-monotonic variation in the product of kurtosis times the variance of the net-proton distribution is observed as a function of the collision energy with 3σ\sigma significance. We also discuss the results of the thermal model in explaining the measured particle yield ratios in heavy-ion collisions and comparison of the different variants of hardon resonance gas model calculation to the data on higher moments of net-proton distributions. We end with a note that the upcoming programs in high baryon density regime at various experimental facilities will complete the search for the QCD critical point through heavy-ion collisions.

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@article{arxiv.2101.09210,
  title  = {QCD Critical Point and High Baryon Density Matter},
  author = {Bedangadas Mohanty and Nu Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.09210},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

10 pages, 6 figures and Presented at workshop on "Criticality in QCD and the Hadron Resonance Gas", Wroclaw (online), July 29-31, 2020. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2009.03006

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