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We present a determination of freeze-out conditions in heavy-ion collisions based on ratios of cu- mulants of net electric charge fluctuations obtained from lattice QCD. These ratios can reliably be calculated for a wide range of chemical…

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Charting the phase diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at large density is a challenging task due to the complex action problem in lattice simulations. Through simulations at imaginary baryon chemical potential $\mu_B$ we observe that,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-11-03 Szabolcs Borsányi , Zoltán Fodor , Jana N. Guenther , Piyush Kumar , Paolo Parotto , Attila Pásztor , Chik Him Wong

Global perturbative QCD analyses, based on large data sets from e-p and hadron collider experiments, provide tight constraints on the parton distribution function (PDF) in the proton. The extension of these analyses to nuclear parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-07 Paloma Quiroga-Arias , José Guilherme Milhano , Urs Achim Wiedemann

We present results for fluctuations of the baryon number for QCD at nonzero temperature and chemical potential. These are extracted from solutions to a coupled set of truncated Dyson-Schwinger equations for the quark and gluon propagators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-01 Philipp Isserstedt , Michael Buballa , Christian S. Fischer , Pascal J. Gunkel

We explore the QCD equation of state at finite baryon density through an expansion in baryon number fugacity, making use of the recent lattice data on the four leading Fourier coefficients of the expansion. A state-of-the-art description of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-06 Volodymyr Vovchenko , Jan Steinheimer , Owe Philipsen , Horst Stoecker

We study generic properties of strongly interacting matter at finite density as relevant to heavy-ion collisions at moderate beam energies or the physics of neutron stars and their mergers. Because of the fermion-sign problem in lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-02-02 Björn H. Wellegehausen , Lorenz von Smekal

We investigate baryon number fluctuations for finite temperature and density in two-flavor QCD. This is done within a QCD-improved low-energy effective theory in an extension of the approach put forward in [1,2]. In the present work we aim…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 Wei-jie Fu , Jan M. Pawlowski , Fabian Rennecke , Bernd-Jochen Schaefer

By simulating a uniform electric field on a lattice and measuring the change in the rest mass, we calculate the electric polarizability of neutral mesons and baryons using the methods of quenched lattice QCD. Specifically, we measure the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Joe Christensen , Walter Wilcox , Frank X. Lee , Leming Zhou

Parton distributions are constructed in a statistical physical picture of the nucleon. The chiral properties of QCD lead to strong relations between quarks and antiquarks distributions and the importance of the Pauli exclusion principle is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacques Soffer

We discuss a numerical analysis employing the density of partition function zeroes which permits effective distinction between phase transitions of first and second order, elucidates crossover between such phase transitions and gives a new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfhard Janke , Ralph Kenna

Parton distribution functions are key quantities for us to understand the hadronic structures in high-energy scattering, but they are difficult to calculate from lattice QCD. Recent years have seen fast development of the large-momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-29 Yong Zhao

Highlights from recent computations in lattice QCD involving baryons are presented. Calculations of the proton mass and spin decompositions are discussed, a percent level determination of the nucleon axial coupling is described, and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-19 Colin Morningstar

In current simulations of fission, the number of protons and neutrons in a given fission fragment is almost always obtained by integrating the total density of particles in the sector of space that contains the fragment. Because of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-19 Marc Verriere , Nicolas Schunck , Toshihiko Kawano

Using recent results on higher order cumulants of conserved charge fluctuations from lattice QCD, we construct mean, variance, skewness, kurtosis, hyper-skewness and hyper-kurtosis of net-baryon number distributions for small baryon…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-02-03 Dennis Bollweg , Frithjof Karsch , Swagato Mukherjee , Christian Schmidt

A study of the first four moments (mean, variance, skewness, and kurtosis) and their products ($\kappa\sigma^{2}$ and $S\sigma$) of the net-charge and net-proton distributions in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{\rm s_{NN}}$ = 7.7-200 GeV from…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-11 Terence J. Tarnowsky , Gary D. Westfall

Correlations among conserved quantum numbers, such as the net-electric charge, the net-baryon, and the net-strangeness in heavy-ion collisions, are crucial for exploring the QCD phase diagram. In this paper, these correlations are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-01-14 ALICE Collaboration

The existence of the QCD critical point at non-zero baryon density is not only of great interest for experimental physics but also a challenge for the theory. Any hint of the existence of the first order phase transition and, particularly,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-09-07 Anyi Li

We present the results of continuum-extrapolated lattice simulations of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) above the crossover temperature and for unprecedentedly high baryon densities at the physical point, employing the complex Langevin…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-22 Michael Mandl , Dénes Sexty , Daniel Unterhuber

Utilizing rapidity-dependent measurements to map the QCD phase diagram provides a complementary approach to traditional beam-energy-dependent measurements around midrapidity. The changing nature of thermodynamic properties of QCD matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-12 Jianing Li , Lipei Du , Shuzhe Shi

Quark number susceptibilities as computed in lattice QCD are commonly believed to provide insights into the microscopic structure of QCD matter, in particular its degrees of freedom. We generalize a previously constructed partonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-30 Shuai Y. F. Liu , Ralf Rapp