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Fluid dynamics near the QCD critical point

Nuclear Theory 2014-05-28 v1

Abstract

We present a fully dynamical model to study the chiral and deconfinement transition of QCD simultaneously. The quark degrees of freedom constitute a heat bath in local equilibrium for both order parameters, the sigma field and a dynamical Polyakov loop. The nonequilibrium evolution of these fields is described by Langevin equations including dissipation and noise. In several quench scenarios we are able to observe a delay in the relaxation times near the transition temperature for a critical point as well as a first-order phase transition scenario. During the hydrodynamical expansion of a hot quark fluid we find a strong enhancement of thermal fluctuations at the first-order transition compared to a scenario with a critical point.

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@article{arxiv.1303.3686,
  title  = {Fluid dynamics near the QCD critical point},
  author = {Marcus Bleicher and Christoph Herold},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.3686},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

8 pages, 8 figures, presented at Xth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum 2012

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